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Recommended Readings Archive
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1776
Posted on | No CommentsThere’s a reason this latest telling of an oft-told tale became such a bestseller; in just under 300 pages, David McCullough manages to chronicle with great verve and immediacy the sweeping story of that fateful... -
Integrity
Posted on | No Commentsby Stephen Carter This Recommended category, Be Ready book examines why the virtue of integrity holds such sway over the American imagination. By weaving together insights from philosophy, theology, history and law, along with examples... -
Leadership, The Warrior’s Art
Posted on | No Commentsby Christopher Kolenda Edited by Christopher Kolenda; foreword by General Barry R. McCaffrey, USA (Ret.) This varied collection of essays brings together some of the foremost military thinkers as they look at the dynamics of... -
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius…
Posted on | No Commentsby Dava Sobel In this Recommended category, Be Ready book, the author acknowledges that anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and... -
Master and Commander
Posted on | No Commentsby Patrick O’Brian This, the first in the splendid series of historical novels depicting the Age of Fighting Sail, establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey, RN, and Stephen Maturin, ship’s surgeon and intelligence agent,... -
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Posted on | No Commentsby Clayton Christensen This revolutionary bestseller takes the radical position that great companies can fail precisely because they do everything right. Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen demonstrates why outstanding companies that had their competitive antennae... -
The Tipping Point
Posted on | No Commentsby Malcolm Gladwell Why did the crime rate in New York plummet so precipitously in the 1990s? How does a hitherto unknown writer become a bestselling novelist? Why is adolescent cigarette use rampant, when it... -
Two Souls Indivisible
Posted on | No Commentsby James Hirsch Two Souls Indivisible tells the inspiring story of an amazing, unlikely friendship, formed in one of the most hideous places imaginable—a North Vietnamese POW camp that prisoners nicknamed “the Zoo.” Prisoner-of-war Fred... -
Aircraft Carriers at War
Posted on | No Commentsby James Holloway III Adm. James Holloway describes this book as a contemporary perspective of the events, decisions, and outcomes in the history of the Cold War—Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet confrontation—that shaped today’s U.S.... -
On the Origins of War: And the Preservation of Peace
Posted on | No Commentsby Donald Kagan War has been a fact of life for millennia on end. By following the common threads that connect the ancient clashes between Athens and Sparta and between Rome and Carthage with the...
