Historical Figures

While you can absorb a lot of information from reading theories, practical examples will help you understand those theories. Meet some interesting personalities, learn lessons from their lives and adopt some of their characteristics to help you become more successful.
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Goddess of the Market
Book
Ayn Rand and the American Right

Jennifer Burns

Oxford UP, 2009

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Book

Benjamin Franklin

Touchstone, 2003

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Alexis de Tocqueville
Book
A Life

Hugh Brogan

Yale UP, 2008

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Is the Staggeringly Profitable Business of Scientific Publishing Bad for Science?
Article
It is an industry like no other, with profit margins to rival Google – and it was created by one of Britain’s most notorious tycoons: Robert Maxwell.

Stephen Buranyi

The Guardian, 2017

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Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime
Article

Ferris Jabr

Scientific American, 2017

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Hamilton vs. Madison and the Birth of American Partisanship
Video

Noah Feldman

TED, 2017

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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic
Article

Amanda Gefter

Nautilus, 2015

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Volcker
Book
The Triumph of Persistence

William L. Silber

Bloomsbury Press, 2012

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The Greater Journey
Book
Americans in Paris

David McCullough

Simon & Schuster, 2011

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Adam Smith
Book
An Enlightened Life

Nicholas Phillipson

Yale UP, 2010

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