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Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader? In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson (in civil ri...
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Dec 31, 2020The Road
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The searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, ...
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Dec 31, 2020From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement...
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Dec 31, 2020Invisible Man
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First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare novels that have changed the shape of American literature. For not only does Ralph Ellison's nightmare journey across the racial divide tell unparalleled truths about the nature of bigotry and its effects on the minds of both victims and perpetrators...
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Dec 31, 2020In Parting the Waters, the first volume of his essential America in the King Years series, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a “compelling…masterfully told” (The Wall Street Journal) account of Martin Luther King’s early years and rise to greatness.Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American Civil Rights Movement, Parting t...
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Dec 31, 2020The Great Gatsby
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Here is a novel, glamorous, ironical, compassionate – a marvelous fusion into unity of the curious incongruities of the life of the period – which reveals a hero like no other – one who could live at no other time and in no other place. But he will live as a character, we surmise, as long as the memory of any reader lasts.It is the story of this Ja...
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Jul 03, 2020The Prince
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The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is a 16th-century political treatise. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy, especially modern political philosophy, in which the effective truth is taken to be more important than any abstract ideal. It was also in direct conflict with the dominant Catholic and scholas...
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Jun 29, 2020The Book of Five Rings
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An Unabridged Edition To Include: The Earth Scroll - The Water Scroll - The Fire Scroll - The Wind Scroll - The Scroll Of Emptiness - Preface and Notes...
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Jun 29, 2020“Fred Kaplan’s Lincoln offers penetrating insights on Lincoln’s ability to explain complex ideas in language accessible to a broad range of readers and listeners.” — James M. McPherson, The New York Review of Books“A fine, invaluable book. . . . Certain to become essential to our understanding of the 16th president. . . . Kaplan meticulously analyz...
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Feb 12, 2020The American president has come to be the most powerful figure in the world—and back in the nineteenth century a great man held that office. William Lee Miller’s new book closely examines that great man in that hugely important office: Abraham Lincoln as president.Wars waged by American presidents have come to be pivotal historical events. Here Mil...
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Feb 12, 2020A thoughtful, nuanced portrait of Abraham Lincoln that finds his legendary political strengths rooted in his most personal struggles. Giving shape to the deep depression that pervaded Lincoln's adult life, Joshua Wolf Shenk's Lincoln's Melancholy reveals how this illness influenced both the president's character and his leadership. Lincoln forged ...
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Feb 12, 2020Lincoln's Virtues by William Lee Miller
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene
Cyropaedia by Xenophon
Status Anxiety by Alain De Botton
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
Range by David Epstein
The Second Mountain by David Brooks
Keep Going by Austin Kleon
The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss
American Caesar by William Manchester
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Lone Star by T. R. Fehrenbach
Fishing for fun--and to wash your soul by Herbert Hoover
The Aeneid by Virgil
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Candide by Voltaire
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Asylum by William Seabrook
Epic of Gilgamesh by Morris Jastrow
Letters From a Self-made Merchant to his Son by George Horace Lorimer
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Selected Epigrams by Martial
Average Is Over by Tyler Cowen
Mastery by Robert Greene
The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen
Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by The Earl of Chesterfield
How to Live by Sarah Bakewell
The Tiger by John Vaillant
The Moral Sayings Of Publius Syrus by Publius Syrus
The Score Takes Care of Itself by Bill Walsh
Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch
The Harder They Fall by Budd Schulberg
The River of Doubt by Candice Millard
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari
On Sparta by Plutarch
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson
Boyd by Robert Coram
Titan by Ron Chernow
Fragments by Heraclitus
Edison - A Biography by Matthew Josephson
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
Plutarch's Lives, Volume 2 by Plutarch
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Ulysses S. Grant by Brooks D. Simpson
Tough Jews by Rich Cohen
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler
Sixteen Satires by Juvenal
Sex on the Brain by Deborah Blum
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg
Essays by Plutarch
Sherman by B. H. Liddell Hart
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Reveille for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Rules for Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
Letters from a Stoic by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Makers of Rome by Plutarch