Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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American statesmen and officials

Political leaders and policymakers

Lives and memoirs of American legislators, mayors, officials, campaign staff and political families.

Books 21Experts 3Recommenders 23

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  1. The Power BrokerRobert A. Caro, 1974
  2. Alexander HamiltonRon Chernow, 2004
  3. Escaping GravityLori Garver, 2022
  4. WitnessWhittaker Chambers, 1952
  5. BossMike Royko, 1971
The Power BrokerThe Power Broker
T1 The Power Broker
Robert A. Caro · 1974
Open LibraryGoodreads

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Jim Collins and 8 others

Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton
T1 Alexander Hamilton
Ron Chernow · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Hamilton's life from the West Indies to the Treasury and his duel with Aaron Burr.

Recommended by: Jim Collins, Patrick Collison and 2 others

Escaping GravityEscaping Gravity
T3 Escaping Gravity
Lori Garver · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

NASA insider on the policy fight that funded commercial crew.

WitnessWitness
T4 Witness
Whittaker Chambers · 1952
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

BossBoss
T4 Boss
Mike Royko · 1971
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Audrey Gelman

What It TakesWhat It Takes
T4 What It Takes
Richard Ben Cramer · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Ezra Klein

A Prayer for the CityA Prayer for the City
T4 A Prayer for the City
Buzz Bissinger · 1998
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Audrey Gelman

Joseph McCarthyJoseph McCarthy
T4 Joseph McCarthy
Arthur Herman · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B.
T4 Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster
James Grant · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

title listed on grantspub.com books page

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

BelieverBeliever
T4 Believer
David Axelrod · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Nick Crocker

Bobby KennedyBobby Kennedy
T4 Bobby Kennedy
Larry Tye · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Tim Cook

Crisis of Character: A White House Secret SeCrisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill and How They Operate
T4 Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill and How They Operate
Gary J. Byrne · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai

The Long GameThe Long Game
T4 The Long Game
Mitch McConnell · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Donald Trump

Devil's BargainDevil's Bargain
T4 Devil's Bargain
Joshua Green · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

A Higher LoyaltyA Higher Loyalty
T4 A Higher Loyalty
James Comey · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

BecomingBecoming
T4 Becoming
Michelle Obama · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Cristina Cordova, Michelle Obama and 1 other

Chasing HillaryChasing Hillary
T4 Chasing Hillary
Amy Chozick · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

From the Corner of the Oval OfficeFrom the Corner of the Oval Office
T4 From the Corner of the Oval Office
Beck Dorey-Stein · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Zoë Foster Blake

The BriefingThe Briefing
T4 The Briefing
Sean Spicer · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Donald Trump

With All Due RespectWith All Due Respect
T4 With All Due Respect
Nikki R. Haley · 2019
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Donald Trump

An Unfinished Love Story
T4 An Unfinished Love Story
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Goodreads

Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Bill Gates

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