Table of Contents
Preface ix
Chapter 1 Leadership by the Book 1
Chapter 2 Making Time for Reading 7
Chapter 3 The Leader's Bookshelf "Top 50" 15
1 The Killer Angels Michael Shaara 16
2 Once an Eagle Anton Myrer 21
3 The Holy Bible, by multiple authors 25
4 Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Doris Kearns Goodwin 29
5 The Art of War Sun Tzu 35
6 The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo and the Somme Sir John Keegan 39
7 We Were Soldiers Once … and Young Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (Ret.) Joseph L. Galloway 43
8 Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam H. R. McMaster 48
9 On War Carl von Clausewitz 51
10 Nimitz E. B. Potter 57
11 Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant 62
12 Crusade in Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower 67
13 Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command in Future War S. L. A. Marshall 70
14 The Last Lion-Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 William Manchester Paul Reid 74
15 Truman David McCullough 79
16 Infantry Attacks Erwin Rommel 82
17 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen R. Covey 86
18 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 89
19 The Second World War Sir Winston Churchill 93
20 In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice during the Vietnam Years Jim and Sybil Stockdale 96
21 Hell in a Very Small Place: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu Bernard B. Fall 99
22 Lee's Lieutenants: A Study in Command (3 vols.) Douglas Southall Freeman 105
23 Gates of Fire Steven Pressfield 109
24 Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times Donald T. Phillips 113
25 The Best and the Brightest David Halberstam 117
26 Ike the Soldier: As They Knew Him Merle Miller 121
27 Soldier, Statesman, Peacemaker: Leadership Lessons from George C. Marshall Jack Uldrich 125
28 This Kind of War T. R. Fehrenbach 129
29 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 132
30 The Mask of Command Sir John Keegan 135
31 A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East David Fromkin 140
32 A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean 143
33 Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History Robert D. Kaplan 146
34 Gods and Generals: A Novel of the Civil War (Civil War Trilogy) Jeff Shaara 151
35 Grant Takes Command Bruce Catton 155
36 Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America's Army Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.) Col. Michael V. Harper, USA (Ret.) 158
37 LeMay: The Life and Wars of General Curtis LeMay Warren Kozak 162
38 Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West William H. Leckie 165
39 The Foundation Trilogy Isaac Asimov 169
40 Ender's Game Orson Scott Card 171
41 Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Karl Marlantes 175
42 Patton: Ordeal and Triumph Ladislas Farago 179
43 Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War William R. Manchester 182
44 To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee 186
45 The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil-Military Relations Samuel P. Huntington 189
46 Master and Commander and the Other Sea Novels of Patrick O'Brian 192
47 The General, by C. S. Forester 195
48 Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 200
49 Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War Eric Larrabee 203
50 How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything Dov Seidman 207
Chapter 4 Reading Lists 211
Chapter 5 Writing and Publishing: The Blueprint for Success 217
Chapter 6 What Are Young Leaders Reading? 225
Chapter 7 Building a Personal Library 236
Chapter 8 Reading and Leading: The Big Lessons 250
Afterword 259
Notes 267