Ryan Holiday

There's a book called Boyd. It's about a fighter pilot. ... It's called The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. ... I would highly recommend this book as well.

My favorite Roosevelt biography, this is Teddy Roosevelt, is The Rise of the Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

by Grand Central Station. I sat down and wept. What a title.

Makulla's biography of the Roosevelt is really good mornings on horseback

Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, Passage of Power, the four amazing uh epic Lyndon Johnson books.

This is Frank Luntz's book. ... Here he is talking about the difference about how the word choices we use determine how people perceive and understand an issue ... it's about how you frame an issue and whether you pick a winning frame or losing frame is a really important book.

40 Years a Gambler on the Mississippi. Not many people know about this book, uh, but it is a crazy memoir of a riverboat gambler in the 1800s.

And he told me I should read it, and it's just lovely.

And I also loved this book, Blast of the Wine, which is a historical fiction about Socrates.

This is Halberstam's The Children, which is all about the teenagers and college students that organized the Nashville sit-in movements. ... You have to read this.

This book, The Journalist and the Murderer, mindblowing. Incredibly good.

This is the book for our times. Montaigne turning away from the dysfunction and chaos and cruelty of his time retreats to his library and begins to explore something that's all too rare then and now, which is the idea of self-awareness. And this was written by Stefan Zwag.

Walker Percy's Lancelot is.

I learned this in David McCullough's book on John Adams.

What Makes Sammy Run by Bud Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront.

Melissa Müller did a beautiful and haunting biography of Anne Frank, who would not be that old even now, which is a haunting idea. Every year that passes, uh, more and more people don't know what the Holocaust was, don't even know who Anne Frank is. And you, you have to read this book.

Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, Passage of Power, the four amazing uh epic Lyndon Johnson books.

Ron Chernau's Biography of Hamilton. Lynn Manuel Miranda reads this book on vacation as a young upandcoming songwriter and playwright and he immediately sees in it what most people had missed.

This is Night of the Grizzlies, which is about a series of grizzly bear attacks that happened on one night in 1967 in Glacier National Park.

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Truman, underrated president. You wouldn't think you would want to read thousand plus pages, but this David McCulla biography is incredible.

The publisher of this book, Stackpole and Sun, is sued by Adolf Hitler for copyright infringement because they'd published a translation of Minecon.

here is B. H. Liddell Hart's uh Strategy. ... this is a great supplementary book that everyone should read.

Here's Lincoln biography of as a writer, which is a look at Lincoln as a writer.