Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell is a 1998 book by the English writer Simon Heffer.

Ian Aitken reviewed the book in the New Statesman: "At 1,024 pages, it would have benefited from some judicious cutting.

Heffer writes with the same lucidity as his subject, but happily without Powell's corkscrew-like sentence construction.

"[1] In 2014, Sathnam Sanghera selected Like the Roman as one of the "top 10 books of the Midlands" for an article in The Guardian.

Sanghera wrote: "Powell remains a highly controversial figure, but if you want to understand the story of postwar immigration in Britain, and, arguably, postwar British politics at large, you need to read this book.