The First American: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago

Shakespeare’s Hamlet

Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear & Trembling

Stefan Zweig’s The World of Yesterday

John Milton’s Paradise Lost

Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek & Henry David Thoreau’s Walden

Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country

Kissinger & the Yom Kippur War

Utopia vs. Reality in American Grand Strategy