Stanford ancient historian and author of THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASSICAL GREECE Josiah Ober and co-author, Forbes.com contributor and management leadership consultant Brook Manville’s THE CIVIC BARGAIN: HOW DEMOCRACY’S PAST CAN HELP REINVENT ITS FUTURE, the story of four key moments in the history of democracy from its advent in Greece and Rome to its development in early modern England and the American founding exploring the civic bargain citizens make with one another to govern themselves—the “gives and gets” required of everyone in a group of people and the duties and responsibilities they accept in turn.