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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Rulers of Europe and the ancient world

Political leaders and policymakers

European monarchs, emperors and dictators, and the statesmen of Greece and Rome.

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  1. The Sack of RomeAlexander Stille, 2006
  2. Salazar: A Political BiographyFilipe Ribeiro de Meneses, 2009
  3. Orbán: Europe's New StrongmanPaul Lendvai, 2017
  4. Plutarch’s LivesPlutarch, 1870
  5. Twelve Against the GodsWilliam Bolitho, 1929
The Sack of RomeThe Sack of Rome
T2 The Sack of Rome
Alexander Stille · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Berlusconi, media ownership and the capture of regulation.

Salazar: A Political BiographySalazar: A Political Biography
T3 Salazar: A Political Biography
Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses · 2009
Open LibraryGoodreads

Salazar and the corporatist Estado Novo economy he ran in Portugal.

Orbán: Europe's New Strongman
T3 Orbán: Europe's New Strongman
Paul Lendvai · 2017
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Viktor Orbán won and holds power in Hungary through nationalism and patronage.

Plutarch’s Lives
T4 Plutarch’s Lives
Plutarch · 1870
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Susan J. Fowler

Twelve Against the GodsTwelve Against the Gods
T4 Twelve Against the Gods
William Bolitho · 1929
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Elon Musk

The Quest for El CidThe Quest for El Cid
T4 The Quest for El Cid
Richard Fletcher · 1989
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Paul Graham

Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
T4 Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945
Volker Ullrich · 2001
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Marc Andreessen

Queen of FashionQueen of Fashion
T4 Queen of Fashion
Caroline Weber · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

How Marie Antoinette used fashion as a political weapon, and how it led to her fall.

Recommended by: Sheryl Sandberg

Catherine the GreatCatherine the Great
T4 Catherine the Great
Robert K. Massie · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Elon Musk

Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's GreatesCicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
T4 Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Lenin
T4 Lenin
Victor Sebestye
Goodreads

Recommended by: Ben Horowitz, Marc Andreessen

The Age of Napoleon
T4 The Age of Napoleon
Will, Ariel Durant
Goodreads

How Napoleon's rise, wars and fall carried Europe from Enlightenment to democracy.

Recommended by: Elon Musk, Larry Ellison

The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives
T4 The Makers of Rome: Nine Lives
Plutarch
Goodreads

Recommended by: Ryan Holiday

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