Ryan Holiday's Review of The Power Broker

“6 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon

“Some of the best biographies I’ve read: Plutarch’s Lives (Vol. 1 & 2) by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by Giorgio Vasari Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Titan by Ron Chernow

“7 Books Every Ambitious Young Person Should Read The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro. Titan by Ron Chernow. The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Cyropaedia by Xenophon The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi

“8 Life Changing Biographies To Read: Plutarch’s Lives by Plutarch The Power Broker by Robert Caro Socrates by Paul Johnson Totto-Chan by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi Eisenhower by Jean Edward Smith Edison by Matthew Josephson The Fish That Ate the Whale by Rich Cohen Sherman by B.H. Hart

“Great question. I think it's complicated. If you read the new Chernow book he paints a nuanced picture of Grant's presidency that I found quite compelling. At the same time, it's clear Grant did not do the work on himself required to be a great President. Eisenhower made the transition from soldier to statesman. Grant didn't quite get there. Ego had something to do with it. Naïveté did as well. [...] Very tough. I think Manchester and Caro are tied. Chernow is third. The first two are more poetic and beautiful in their prose. They seem to really get inside the skin of their subjects.