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Ogle, Richard. Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
As William White was to put it, “Without rejecting outright a single MacArthur policy, without defending at a single point a single Truman policy, without accusing the General of anything whatever, the Senate’s investigation had largely ended his influence on policy-making. It had set in motion an intellectual counterforce to the emotional adulatio
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
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Jean Edward Smith • FDR
More than all his opponents combined, the country lawyer and local politician had toiled skillfully to increase his chances to become the Republican nominee for president.
Doris Kearns Goodwin • Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Richard Rhodes’s The Making of the Atomic Bomb; Thomas L. Friedman’s From Beirut to Jerusalem;
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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