The People

A bold, sweeping exploration through the rise, fall, and reinvention of “the people”—from ancient Athens to digital populism—exposing the timeless playbook of power: how it’s won, wielded, and lost. Since the dawn of politics, leaders have claimed to speak for “the people.” Some have led revolutions in their name; others have crushed them under the same banner. But who, exactly, are “the people”? And how has this elusive concept shaped the rise and fall of governments, from Rome to the Renaissan