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Books recommended by James Mattis

James Mattis recommends 55 books, among them Meditations, The Lessons of History and Long Walk to Freedom.

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Industry

55 books

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Nonfiction

The Lessons of History

Will & Ariel Durant

Economics & politics

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela

Biography & memoir

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

Nonfiction

A Peace to End All Peace

David Fromkin

History

A Savage War of Peace

Alistair Horne

History

American Caesar

William Manchester

Biography & memoir

Battle Cry of Freedom

James McPherson

History

Before the First Shots Are Fired

Tony Zinni

History

Boyd

Robert Coram

History

Catastrophe 1914

Max Hasting

Economics & politics

Defeat into Victory

Viscount Slim

History

Dereliction of Duty

H.R. McMaster

Economics & politics

Diplomacy

Henry Kissinger

History

Duty

Robert Gates

History

Fighting Power

Martin van Creveld

History

Fighting Talk

Colin S. Gray

History

For Country and Corps

Gail Shisler

History

Goodbye, Darkness

William Manchester

Biography & memoir

Invisible Armies

Max Boot

History

Issues on My Mind

George P. Shultz

Economics & politics

Just and Unjust Wars

Michael Walzer

Philosophy

Memoirs

Ulysses S. Grant

Biography & memoir

Military Innovation in the Interwar Period

Williamson Murray

History

My American Journey

Colin Powell

Economics & politics

National Insecurity

David Rothkopf

Economics & politics

Never Quit the Fight

Ralph Peters

Economics & politics

One Bullet Away

Nathaniel Fick

Biography & memoir

Other Men's Flowers

Lord Wavell

Arts & entertainment

Scipio Africanus

Liddell-Hart

History