Ryan Holiday

Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith. Very, very good.

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

Abundance was very good. I loved it.

emerson has a quote that is how I try to live my life as well he says every man I meet is my master in some point and in that I learn from him

he's been working on this book for uh uh since Johnson died and he he's he's 90 and he's on the fifth and fin it's a Race Against Time he's on the fifth and final one now he's he made it up to Vietnam and now he's got to get the but it's like it's it's probably the one it's one of the greatest books ever on Power

we we should have road to character let me see that uh he's great here's how I found out he was somebody I like so I'll pull you know when I read my daily news right I'll pull quotes mhm over the years and after about 8 years of pulling quotes I went back and read everything I'd pulled 40% of what I pulled unbeknown to me was from David Brook so so this is the eulogy verse uh resume one yep

He has a book called Days of Rage, which I think is the book everyone should be reading to understand our crazy political situation right now.

Chernow's Grant is quite good.

Here is John Lewis Gaddis' book on grand strategy, which I would also read if I was a little guy going against the big guy or trying to bring change into the world.

It's about leadership in turbulent times.

So Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter's been raving about this book. I just want to cosign on this recommendation cuz it is an incredible book that not only changed how I understood America but it changed how I understood the world.

and then his other book let's see do we have the second Mountain he has this book called the second Mountain I did check that out that's great I like that a lot too

Hair Love.

I used it a lot actually when I was writing Stillness is the Key.

This is a biography of Edison by Edmund Morris.

David Reynolds and David Donald, two big epic bios of Lincoln. Very, very good.

I think Isabella Wilkerson is one of our best living writers. I got asked by the New York Times a couple of years ago to say what I thought some of the best works of non-fiction in the 21st century were. And I I said this book and this book deserve to be in that list.

Annie Duke's book on quitting. Very good.

have you read of boys and men okay you got to read this this is amazing yeah cuz uh obviously all sorts of gains for women but young men are especially struggling that's why there's so many sort of charlatans and grifters out there y so he this is an amazing book he was just here but it's it's all about it's about the research of why specifically men are struggling and then what he thinks we ought to do about it

This book, Marriage at Sea, so good.

Moral Ambition is good. I talked about that in mine.

he just wrote a book he he grew he grew up in Mississippi just wrote this incredible book about the barn it's called the barn and it's about the site where emit till was killed

I took pictures of Magnamera at War and Death in a Shallow Pond cuz I want to read both of those.

a Legends of bager Vance you told me that's hilarious tried to yeah tried didn't get the part it worked out didn't didn't have me it worked out only problem is I was like dang it Damon's back swing that's not a scratch handicap that's funny