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Index
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Chapter One: Leadership by the Book
Chapter Two: Making Time for Reading
Chapter Three: The Leader’s Bookshelf “Top 50”
1. The Killer Angels, by Michael Shaara
2. Once an Eagle, by Anton Myrer
3. The Holy Bible, by multiple authors
4. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
5. The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
6. The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme, by Sir John Keegan
7. We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young, by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway
8. Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam, by H. R. McMaster
9. On War, by Carl von Clausewitz
10. Nimitz, by E. B. Potter
11. Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, by Ulysses S. Grant
12. Crusade in Europe, by Dwight D. Eisenhower
13. Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War, by S. L. A. Marshall
14. The Last Lion—Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965, by William Manchester and Paul Reid
15. Truman, by David McCullough
16. Infantry Attacks, by Erwin Rommel
17. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey
18. From Beirut to Jerusalem, by Thomas L. Friedman
19. The Second World War, by Sir Winston Churchill
20. In Love and War: The Story of a Family’s Ordeal and Sacrifice during the Vietnam Years, by Jim and Sybil Stockdale
21. Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu, by Bernard B. Fall
22. Lee’s Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 vols.), by Douglas Southall Freeman
23. Gates of Fire, by Steven Pressfield
24. Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times, by Donald T. Phillips
25. The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam
26. Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him, by Merle Miller
27. Soldier, Statesman, Peacemaker: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall, by Jack Uldrich
28. This Kind of War, by T. R. Fehrenbach
29. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, by Mark Twain
30. The Mask of Command, by Sir John Keegan
31. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East, by David Fromkin
32. A River Runs Through It, by Norman Maclean
33. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History, by Robert D. Kaplan
34. Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy), by Jeff Shaara
35. Grant Takes Command, by Bruce Catton
36. Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America’s Army, by Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.) and Col. Michael V. Harper, USA (Ret.)
37. LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay, by Warren Kozak
38. Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, by William H. Leckie
39. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov
40. Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card
41. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes
42. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, by Ladislas Farago
43. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, by William R. Manchester
44. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
45. The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations, by Samuel P. Huntington
46. Master and Commander and the Other Sea Novels of Patrick O’Brian
47. The General, by C. S. Forester
48. Captains Courageous, by Rudyard Kipling
49. Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, by Eric Larrabee
50. How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything, by Dov Seidman
Chapter Four: Reading Lists
Chapter Five: Writing and Publishing: The Blueprint for Success
Chapter Six: What Are Young Leaders Reading?
Chapter Seven: Building a Personal Library
Chapter Eight: Reading and Leading: The Big Lessons
Afterword
Notes
About the Authors
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