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Book Recommendations for Leaders & Notable People in 2023

There are 56 leaders & notable people books recommended by the community in 2023.
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Alastair Smith
4.6
Comments: 49
Avaliable on Amazon
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Trump: The Art of the Deal
Donald J. Trump, Tony Schwartz
4.6
Comments: 18
Avaliable on Amazon
Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy
Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy
Gordon Thomas
4.3
Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
The Secret Chief Revealed
The Secret Chief Revealed
Myron J. Stolaroff
4.0
Comments: 8
Avaliable on Amazon
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
Robert Coram
4.7
Comments: 7
Avaliable on Amazon
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Michael Wolff
4.2
Comments: 6
Avaliable on Amazon
Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide)
Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide)
Edward Feser
4.8
Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
4.0
Comments: 4
Avaliable on Amazon
Truth Seeking: The Story of High-Ranking Mormon Leader Hans Mattsson Seeking Sincere Answers From His Church but Instead Finding Contempt, Fear, Doubt ...and Eventually Peace
Truth Seeking: The Story of High-Ranking Mormon Leader Hans Mattsson Seeking Sincere Answers From His Church but Instead Finding Contempt, Fear, Doubt ...and Eventually Peace
Mrs Christina Hanke
5.0
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (New Edition)
Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
4.8
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House
Omarosa Manigault Newman
4.2
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss
Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist’s Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss
Carmen Gentile
4.9
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
E.B. Sledge
4.9
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Out of the Silence: A Personal Testimony of God's Healing Power
Out of the Silence: A Personal Testimony of God's Healing Power
Duane Miller, Gary Thomas
4.7
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein – The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal
Filthy Rich: The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein – The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal
James Patterson, Tim Malloy
3.4
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other
Donald J. Trump: A President Like No Other
Conrad Black
4.5
Comments: 3
Avaliable on Amazon
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)
Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Reprint ed.)
James B. Stockdale
4.9
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Vicky Ward
3.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Black Hearts: One Platoon's Descent into Madness in Iraq's Triangle of Death
Jim Frederick
4.7
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Ice Man, Captain America, and the New Face of American War
Evan Wright
4.7
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam
Vivek Ramaswamy
4.8
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story
John Stockwell
4.5
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood
Jimmy Carter
4.6
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
Cole C. Kingseed, Visit Amazon's Cole C. Kingseed Pagesearch resultsLearn about Author CentralCole C. Kingseed
4.7
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Deborah Feldman
4.2
Comments: 2
Avaliable on Amazon
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story
Julie K. Brown
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H. W. Brands
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours
Soldier Spy: The True Story of an MI5 Office Risking His Life to Save Yours
Tom Marcus
4.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Candice Millard
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Rough Riders
Rough Riders
Theodore Roosevelt
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection)
Most Secret War (Penguin World War II Collection)
Victor Jones
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
Bargaining for Advantage: Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People 2nd Edition
G. Richard Shell
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Robert A. Caro
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War
Robert M. Gates
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
McCarthy And His Enemies
McCarthy And His Enemies
William Buckley
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Grant
Grant
Ron Chernow
4.8
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
Leo Braudy
3.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA
Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA
Ralph McGehee
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis
4.3
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother
My Darling Winston: The Letters Between Winston Churchill and His Mother
Randolph Churchill
3.6
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
The Mind of War: John Boyd and American Security
Grant T. Hammond
4.1
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Small Fry
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
4.4
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Acid Alex
Acid Alex
Al Lovejoy
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Conversations with Giants of Asia)
Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew: Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (Conversations with Giants of Asia)
Tom Plate
3.0
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
Henry Kissinger
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream: The Most Revealing Portrait of a President and Presidential Power Ever Written
Doris Kearns Goodwin
4.2
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books)
You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger (Bluejacket Books)
Roger Hall
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
The Mission, the Men, and Me: Lessons from a Former Delta Force Commander
Pete Blaber
4.7
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldier's Inside Account of the Hunt for America's Most Dangerous Enemies
Drone Warrior: An Elite Soldier's Inside Account of the Hunt for America's Most Dangerous Enemies
Brett Velicovich, Christopher S Stewart
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Jon Meacham
4.5
Comments: 1
Avaliable on Amazon
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
Kate Moore
4.7
Avaliable on Amazon
Infidel
Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
4.7
Avaliable on Amazon
The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
The Last Great Senator: Robert C. Byrd's Encounters with Eleven U.S. Presidents (WEST VIRGINIA & APPALACHIA)
David Corbin
4.6
Avaliable on Amazon
Listening In: Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I
Listening In: Intercepting German Trench Communications in World War I
Ernest H. Hinrichs
3.0
Avaliable on Amazon
The Destiny of Humanity
The Destiny of Humanity
Jonathan Bannon Maher
5.0
Avaliable on Amazon