Carnegie Steel Youngstown

Mike Gee

A sunny disposition is worth more than any fortune. - Andrew Carnegie

Unordered. I update this periodically.

Important Books

  • The Autobiography of Andrew Carngie
  • The Carnegie Nobody Knew
  • Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  • Ages of American Capitalism, Jonathan Levy
  • Ithaka, C.P. Cavafy

Great Reads

  • Pillars of Economics, Ideas and Traditions
  • Plutarch, Lives
  • The Prize, Daniel Yergin
  • Pericles Funeral Oration
  • First Principles, Thomas E. Ricks
  • Capital, Thomas Piketty
  • Father of Spin, Larry Tye
  • Man, Economy, and State
  • House of Morgan
  • The Autobiography of Franklin
  • Who is Michael Ovitz?
  • Never Split the Difference
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
  • Range, David Epstein
  • Giants of Enterprise
  • Anything on / about Charlie Munger
  • A Time for Choosing, Reagan
  • Gettysburg Address
  • Aristotle Onassis - An Extravagant Life
  • Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • A History of Education in Antiquity
  • The Prince
  • The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot
  • Ariel, Sylvia Plath
  • Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
  • Growth, Vaclav Smil
  • Mastery, Robert Greene
  • Lessons of History, Will and Ariel Durant
  • Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche
  • Sons of Wichita (Koch Family), Schulman

Good Reads

  • Human Action
  • Carnegie Address to the Curry Commercial College in Pittsburgh (1885)
  • Pale Fire, Nabokov
  • Urban Street Design Guide
  • The Outsiders
  • An American Political Tradition, Hofstadter
  • Propaganda, Edward Bernays
  • Pillars of Economics, Factors and Markets
  • The War Below, Scheyder
  • Great Adaptations
  • How to Get Rich, Felix Dennis
  • Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  • Theory of Structures, Spofford
  • The World for Sale
  • Mining Valuation Handbook, Rudenno
  • How to Make Decisions, Annie Duke
  • The Science of Success, Charles Koch
  • The Hard Thing about Hard Things
  • Zero to One
  • The Art of Strategy
  • The Edward Bernays Reader
  • Ogilvy on Advertising
  • The Power Broker, Robert Caro
  • The Hermit King
  • Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test
  • Evolution Gone Wrong
  • Options, Futures, and other Derivatives
  • Spin Selling
  • Kuby Immunology
  • 21st Century Monetary Policy, Bernanke
  • 100M Offers / Leads
  • The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
  • Presidents: All You Need to Know
  • Distant Force (Teledyne)

Terrible Reads. Popular books that I did not enjoy.

  • Atomic Habits