50 Books I’d Like to Have

The original article can be found here.

I already have #’s 4, 9, 10, 18, and 40.

  1. The Making of the President 1960 (Theodore H. White)
  2. Ogilvy on Advertising (David Ogilvy)
  3. The Selling of the President (Joe McGinnis)
  4. The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
  5. What I Saw at the Revolution (Peggy Noonan)
  6. The Making of the President 1968 (Theodore H. White)
  7. All Politics is Local (Tip o’Neill)
  8. The 33 Strategies of War (Robert Greene)
  9. The Prince (Niccolo Machiavelli)
  10. 1984 (Orson Welles)
  11. Moneyball (Michael Lewis)
  12. All’s Fair (Mary Matalin & James Carville)
  13. Behind the Oval Office (Dick morris)
  14. The Influentials (Ed Keller & Jon Berry)
  15. Profiles in Courage (John F. Kennedy)
  16. Packaging the Presidency, A History and Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising (Kathleen Hall Jamieson)
  17. Great Political Thinkers (William Ebenstein)
  18. Leadership (Rudy Giuliani)
  19. Democracy in America (Alexis De Tocqueville)
  20. Bad Boy, The life and politics of Lee Atwater (John Brady)
  21. Future Shock / The Third Wave / Power Shift (Alvin Toffler)
  22. All to Human (George Stephanopoulos)
  23. Spin Cycle (Howard Kurtz)
  24. Words that Work (Frank Luntz)
  25. The Making of the President 1964 (Theodore H. White)
  26. Bare Knuckles and Backrooms (Ed Rollins)
  27. A Tale of Two Americas (Stanley Greenberg)
  28. For the Record (Donald Regan)
  29. Campaign Craft (Daniel Shea)
  30. America’s Right Turn (Richard Viguerie & David Franke)
  31. The Choice (Bob Woodward)
  32. The 48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene & Joost Elffers)
  33. Made to Stick, Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Chip Heath & Dan Heath)
  34. On War (Carl von Clausewitz) Indexed Edition
  35. All the President’s Men (Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein)
  36. The Making of the President 1972 (Theodore H. White)
  37. Bowling Alone (Robert D. Putnam)
  38. An Army of Davids (Glenn Reynolds)
  39. Eyewitness to Power (David Gergen)
  40. Winning the Future (Newt Gingrich)
  41. Leaders (Richard Nixon)
  42. Trail Fever (Michael Lewis)
  43. Campaigns and Elections American Style (James Thurber & Candice Nelson)
  44. Power Plays (Dick Morris)
  45. Glued to the Set (Steven Stark)
  46. Polling and the Public (Herbert Asher)
  47. Simply Speaking (Peggy Noonan)
  48. Eloquence in an Electronic Age, the Transformation of Political Speechmaking (Kathleen Hall Jamieson)
  49. The Vanishing Voter (Thomas E. Petterson)
  50. Who We Are (Sam Roberts)

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