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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
Another great narrative nonfiction out this year that I hope you’ll like is: The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown.Satya Nadella (CEO/Microsoft)
Nadella calls this tale with a local Seattle connection—it involves an underdog University of Washington crew team and the 1936 Berlin Olympics—”A wonderful illustration of the importance of teamwork, which was a core part of my focus out of the gate as CEO.Gail Kelly (Former CEO/ Westpac)
Member of the Group of 30, and former CEO of Westpac Gail Kelly will be spending her summer months reading a memoir, a novel and historical non-fiction.Bre Pettis (Co-founder/Markerbot)
If you don't row together, you don't get to beat the Nazis at the Olympics.Amazon description
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past.
What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 1930s America for the promise of glory at the heart of Hitler’s Berlin. Stroke by stroke, a remarkable young man strives to regain his shattered self-regard, to dare again to trust in others – and to find his way back home.
Told against the backdrop of the Great Depression, The Boys in the Boat is narrative non-fiction of the first order; a personal story full of lyricism and unexpected beauty that rises above the grand sweep of history, and captures instead the purest essence of what it means to be alive.
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- The Very Best Books I Read in 2014
- The 7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need To Lead Smarter
- Books CEOs Will Be Reading This Summer
- Summer Book Recommendations from the Smartest People We Know
