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Top Book Recommendations

1. Snowball- Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder

2. Tried by War- Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief, by James McPherson

3. Why the West Rules- For Now- The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal About the Future, by Ian Morris

4. This Time is Different- Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen Reinhart & Keith Rogoff

5. Einstein- By Warren Isaacson

6. The First Tycoon- The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T.J Stiles

7. While America Aged- How Pensions Debt Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis, by Roger Lowenstein

8. Stabilizing an Unstable Economy- By Hyman P. Minsky

9. Summits- Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century, by David Reynolds

10. A Country of Vast Designs- The Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent, by Robert W. Merry & James K. Polk

11. The Greatest Trade Ever- The Behind the Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, by Gregory Zuckerman

12. The Big Short- Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis

13. Intelligence In War- Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Queda, by John Keegan

14. Master and Commanders- How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945, by Andrew Roberts

15. High Financier- The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg, by Niall Ferguson

16. 13 Bankers- The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, by Simon Johnson

17. A Fiery Peace in a Cold War- Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon, by Neil Sheehan

18. Yalta- The Price of Peace, by S.M Plokhy

19. God and Gold- America and the Making of the Modern World, by Walter Russell Mead - Britain

20. LeMay- The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay, by Warren Kozak

21. The Myth of the Rational Market- By Justin Fox

22. House of Cards- A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, by William Cohan

23. Too Big to Fail- The Inside Story of  How Wall Street and Washignton Fought to Save the Financial System- and Themeselves, by Andrew Sorkin