Brook Manville

Brook’s background combines an unusual breadth of academic, consulting and management experience. After completing advanced degrees in history, he became an award-winning university professor. He subsequently reinvented himself as a media and technology executive, and then again as a strategy and organizational consultant, as a partner at McKinsey & Co, and later, as the principal of […]

A powerful case for democracy and how it can survive, based on historical analysis of civilization’s best known, long-enduring democracies (ancient Athens & Rome, modern Britain & America). Democracy flourishes only if citizens are willing to adapt and keep relevant the agreement—“the civic bargain”–that they make with one another to govern themselves, free of a boss. It is a lesson modern democracies must confront to survive the continuing challenges of today’s world.

Brook writes regularly, connecting the findings and ideas of the book to contemporary renewal of America’s democracy. Visit Substack to join the conversation.