Resources

The following books and websites have undoubtedly influenced my thinking on most of the topics covered in this platform.

Reading List (alphabetical by author)

  • Albright: Madam Secretary
  • Boorstin: The Creators
  • Boorstin: A Short History of Nearly Everthing
  • Braudel: The Structures of Everyday Life
  • Braudel: The Wheels of Commerce
  • Braudel: The Perspective of the World
  • Brown: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
  • Chang: Bad Samaritans – The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
  • Chernow: Hamilton
  • Chernow: Washington – A Life
  • Desmond: Povery, By America
  • Diamond: Guns, Germs and Steel
  • Diamond: Collapse
  • Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
  • Dyer: War
  • Edmund: Theodore Rex
  • Edmund: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
  • Edmund: Colonel Roosevelt
  • Ehle: Trail of Tears – The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
  • Graeber: The Dawn of Everything – A New History of Humanity 
  • Gwynne: Empire of the Summer Moon – Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
  • Hamilton & Madison: The Federalist Papers
  • Harari: Sapiens – A Brief History of Humankind
  • Hayes: Twilight of the Elites
  • Heilbroner: The Worldly Philosophers
  • Isaacson: The Innovators
  • Karnow: Vietnam – A History
  • Kearns Goodwin: Team of Rivals
  • Lewis: The Middle East
  • Lindqvist: Exterminate All the Brutes – 
  • Manchester: The Glory and the Dream – A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972 (two volumes)
  • Mann: 1491 – New Revelations of the New World Before Columbus
  • Mann: 1493 – Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
  • Marx: Capital
  • Mayer: Dark Money
  • McCullough: John Adams
  • McCullough: 1776
  • McCullough: The Pioneers – The Heroic Story of the Settlers the Brought the American Ideal West
  • Munger: Analyzing Policy
  • Obama: A Promised Land
  • Orwell: Animal Farm
  • Orwell: 1984
  • Piketty: Capital in the Twenty-First Century
  • Piketty: Capital and Ideology
  • Reich: Saving Capitalism
  • Saez & Zucman: The Triumph of Injustice
  • Simard: Finding the Mother Tree
  • Smil: Energy and Civilization, A History (2017, MIT Press)
  • Smil: Made in the USA – The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing
  • Stone: Policy Paradox (Revised edition)
  • Sunkara: The Socialist Manifesto
  • Wilkerson: Caste
  • Zinn: A People’s History of the United States

Websites