Saagar Enjeti Recommended Books
Saagar Enjeti has recommended 24 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
(Read more on Wikipedia)24 Books Recommended
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Battle Cry of Freedom
"Reading it in the midst of social and political chaos in America gave me profound hope that America at its best can overcome even its worst challenges." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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The Ride of a Lifetime
Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
"[Details] the evolution of the modern-American media conglomerate." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Tim Ferriss, Brené Brown, Brian Chesky, Jason Calacanis, Karlie Kloss, Alexis Ohanian, Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates
Billion Dollar Whale
The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
"Details how a pudgy Malaysian 20-something was able to con the highest levels of the financial, media, and political elite into making himself a billionaire." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Bill Gates, Alexis Ohanian, Anthony Pompliano, Michael Mauboussin, Raoul Pal
No Filter
The Inside Story of Instagram
"I respect the hell out of Mark Zuckerberg. That’s probably not the takeaway for most people after reading this book." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Bitcoin Billionaires
A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption
"The many personalities behind Bitcoin (like the Winklevi twins) make the story of its meteoric rise in the last decade even more compelling." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Digital Gold
Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
"The theory of bitcoin, its utility, and the subculture that birthed it is nonetheless an important and profound one that will shape the way we use the internet as the years progress." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Mawson's Will
The Greatest Polar Survival Story Ever Written
"Tale of survival in the Antarctic all by himself." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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The River of Doubt
Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
"Our own former President Theodore Roosevelt’s journey down [the Amazon] river." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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The Lost City of Z
A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
"The RIVETING tale of Percy Fawcett’s obsession with the Amazon." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
Michael Jordan
The Life
"The story of Jordan is not the story of sports, but the story of American culture in the 1990’s." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Endgame
Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall
"His obsessions, innate abilities, and demons are fascinating to read despite how sadly his life ultimately turned out." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
Empire of the Summer Moon
Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
"The early history of the American West, its culture, and the collision of history between American Settlers and Native Americans." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
"I begrudgingly respect his genius." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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The Road to El Dorado
Percy Fawcett and the Lost World of Z
"Every vacation I was able to take in 2020 I went West and tried to spend as much of it outside as possible treading some of the same ground explored in [this book]." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
The Scientist and the Spy
A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage
"A microcosm of the threat we face from China." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
DisneyWar
"[Details] the evolution of the modern-American media conglomerate." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
The Revolution Was Televised
How The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Lost, and Other Groundbreaking Dramas Changed TV Forever
"[Details] the evolution of the modern-American media conglomerate." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
The Loudest Voice in the Room
How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country
"How [cable news] became forever disrupted by Roger Ailes." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
The Man Who Owns the News
Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
"How Rupert Murdoch changed the way we report the news across 3 different continents." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
Top of the Morning
Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV
"To understand the precursor to TV news in the form of the Today and Good Morning America franchises." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
Up All Night
Ted Turner, CNN, and the Birth of 24-Hour News
"Understanding how exactly [cable news] came to be with CNN." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
Scott and Amundsen
The Race to the South Pole
"The tales of explorers from Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen’s race to the South Pole." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
In the Kingdom of Ice
The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
"I love reading stories of extraordinary men facing off against the most extreme that nature has to offer." - Saagar Enjeti (Source)
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