#146 Milton Hershey (Chocolate)
What I learned from reading Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's Extraordinary Life of Wealth, Empire, and Utopian Dreams by Michael D'Antonio. ---- [0:01] Perhaps the only thing about Milton Hershey that is ...
27 Sep 202049min
#145 William Randolph Hearst
What I learned from reading The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst by David Nasaw. ---- [0:20] There has never been —nor, most likely, will there ever again be — a publisher like William Rando...
20 Sep 20201h 5min
#144 Ernest Shackleton
What I learned from reading Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. ---- [0:58] All the men were struck, almost to the point of horror, by the way the ship behaved like a giant be...
13 Sep 202055min
#143 Alfred Lee Loomis (the most interesting man you've never heard of)
What I learned from reading Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II by James Conant. ---- [0:01] Few men of Loomis’ prominence and a...
6 Sep 202056min
#142 Teddy Roosevelt and J.P. Morgan
What I learned from reading The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism by Susan Berfield. ---- [0:17] Morgan was the most influential of these ...
30 Aug 202051min
#141 Arnold Schwarzenegger (My Unbelievably True Life Story)
What I learned from reading Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ---- I decided that the best course for independence was to mind my own business and make my own mon...
23 Aug 20201h 3min
#140 Bill Gates (the Making of the Microsoft Empire)
What I learned from reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire by James Wallace and Jim Erickson. ---- Microsoft had become the first software company to sell more than a b...
16 Aug 202055min
#139 J.P. Morgan
What I learned from reading The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow. [0:01] This book is about the rise, fall, and resurrection of an American b...
9 Aug 20201h 8min
