Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Leadership Reading for High School and College Students


Which works do I recommend to high school and college students who are interested in leadership? Although I've tucked in one (19 Stars) which directly addresses leadership, each of the titles on this list provides valuable perspectives for leaders:
  1. Lincoln and His Generals by T. Harry Williams
  2. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  3. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
  4. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  5. 19 Stars by Edgar Puryear
  6. Inside The Third Reich by Albert Speer
  7. John Adams by David McCullough
  8. The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
  9. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  10. The First Circle by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  11. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
  12. Plunkitt of Tammany Hall by George Washington Plunkitt
  13. Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  14. Seize the Fire by Adam Nicolson
  15. Modern Times by Paul Johnson

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