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Marc Andreessen Book Recommendations (111 Books)

Marc Andreessen is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer.

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Books Recommended by Marc Andreessen

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The Lean Startup

How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

Eric Ries

Source: "[The author] has created a science where previously there was only art. A must read for every serious entrepreneur—and every manager interested in innovation." - Marc Andreessen

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The Strange Death of Europe

Immigration, Identity, Islam

Douglas Murray

Source: "One perspective on the politics of immgiration in Europe, playing out in real time, e.g. Merkel almost getting deposed days ago. Confusing on multiple levels from US perspective." - Marc Andreessen

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The Rational Optimist

How Prosperity Evolves

Matt Ridley

Source: "Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us. How to feel good about the future even in dark times." - Marc Andreessen

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Extreme Ownership

How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

Jocko Willink

Source: "I hand out more copies of this book than any other. How to take responsibility for yourself and for those around you. Modern Stoicism, as applied in the military, business, and life." - Marc Andreessen

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The Rise of Superman

Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance

Steven Kotler

Source: "Startling walk through a series of domains where peak human performance is rising at remarkable rates due to "flow state". Thought provoking and then some." - Marc Andreessen

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The 4-Hour Workweek

Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

Tim Ferriss

Source: "[The author] basically takes all of the time management and personal productivity theories of the last 20 to 30 years and pushes them to 11, to paraphrase 'Spinal Tap.'" - Marc Andreessen

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Shattered

Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign

Jonathan Allen

Source: "Best (?) book so far on the Democratic side of the 2016 race, most provocatively on the impact of the press coverage of the email hacks on the last stages of the race." - Marc Andreessen

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Chasing Hillary

Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

Amy Chozick

Source: "On the bus/in the plane with the Hillary campaign. Revealing in many dimensions at once, and highly entertaining. Best book on the 2016 campaign so far?" - Marc Andreessen

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But What If We're Wrong?

Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

Chuck Klosterman

Source: "Wide-ranging meditation on how to think about the reality that we're probably wrong about most things we believe. Hard to read and not emerge humbled." - Marc Andreessen

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A Higher Loyalty

Truth, Lies, and Leadership

James Comey

Source: "Certainly the story is well known, but given author's propensity to post photos of himself wearing running shoes in Iowa, potentially relevant again starting next year?" - Marc Andreessen

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Devil's Bargain

Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Joshua Green

Source: "Best (?) book so far on the Republican side of the 2016 race, and a deep dive into the intellectual origins of Bannonism and to some extent Trumpism." - Marc Andreessen

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The Spider Network

How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History

David Enrich

Source: "'Billions'-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London." - Marc Andreessen

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When the Wolves Bite

Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle

Scott Wapner

Source: "'Wall Street'-esque battle between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn over unlikely target Herbalife. Sip a delicious Herbal Aloe Shake while reading." - Marc Andreessen

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Source: "Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?" - Marc Andreessen

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Living with a SEAL

31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Jesse Itzler

Source: "What's it like to train with a Navy SEAL in winter in New York for a whole month? Featuring the truly remarkable American hero David Goggins." - Marc Andreessen

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The Courage to Be Disliked

The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

Ichiro Kishimi

Source: "Smash hit in Japan, and easy to see why. Adlerian psychology meets Stoic philosophy in Socratic dialogue. Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend." - Marc Andreessen

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Conspiracy

Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue

Ryan Holiday

Source: "Startlingly deep cultural history of conspiracies, examined through the lens of the brutally effective Gawker takedown, with full access to the main players." - Marc Andreessen

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The Maverick and His Machine

Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM

Kevin Maney

Source: "If you want to read what's it's like to work for someone harsh, read [this book]. He makes all of today's entrepreneurs look like cream puffs." - Marc Andreessen

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Can't Hurt Me

Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds

David Goggins

Source: "Anytime anybody feels mopey about what's happening in their startup or in their life, this is the book to read to reset all the expectations." - Marc Andreessen

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Schulz and Peanuts

A Biography

David Michaelis

Source: "Amazing. And, basically, the biographer makes the case that Peanuts was the longest, continuous work of American art ever made." - Marc Andreessen

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Civilian Warriors

The Inside Story of Blackwater and the Unsung Heroes of the War on Terror

Erik Prince

Source: "The founding and growth of military contractor Blackwater as told by its founder and CEO; newly relevant due to the Mueller investigation." - Marc Andreessen

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A Spy Among Friends

Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal

Ben Macintyre

Source: "True, chilling saga of straight up, profoundly deep treason and betrayal. Sociopaths in high positions of power and influence. Hair curling." - Marc Andreessen

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The Network State

Balaji Srinivasan

Source: "[The author] has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met, and [this book] may be his best." - Marc Andreessen

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A Very Expensive Poison

The Assassination of Alexander Litvinenko and Putin's War with the West

Luke Harding

Source: "The astonishing story of the Litvinenko and Perepilichnyy assassinations in the UK; reads like a Lee Child thriller; plenty topical now." - Marc Andreessen

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All Out War

A Novel

Sean Parnell

Source: "Inside story of how Britain decided to exit the EU. Economic self-destruction or national liberation? Repercussions to play out for decades." - Marc Andreessen

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Slugfest

Inside the Epic, 50-year Battle between Marvel and DC

Reed Tucker

Source: "Spellbinding creative and business history of the incredibly imaginative comic book industry in the decades before it ate Hollywood." - Marc Andreessen

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The Fabric of Civilization

How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

Source: "The story of technology is a story of human ingenuity, and nowhere is this more clear than in the story of textiles." - Marc Andreessen

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History Has Begun

The Birth of a New America

Bruno Macaes

Source: "On the country and culture the United States is evolving into, not necessarily decline, but something very different." - Marc Andreessen

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A Guide to the Good Life

The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

William B. Irvine

Source: "Best (?) walk through the ancient/current philosophy of Stoicism. You can't control other people but you can control yourself, so do that." - Marc Andreessen

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Whole Earth Discipline

Stewart Brand

Source: "On why even environmentalists should be pro building, pro cities, pro nuclear, and pro genetic engineering." - Marc Andreessen

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Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise

George Gilder

Source: "On how economic systems that encourage aggressive entrepreneurship build the most for the benefit of the most." - Marc Andreessen

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Hacks

The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House

Donna Brazile

Source: "Visceral, raw, you-are-there recounting of living through the hack attacks and resulting meltdown of the DNC in 2016." - Marc Andreessen

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Who Is Michael Ovitz?

Michael Ovitz

Source: "Learn how to build an empire and transform an industry from the Jedi master of modern Hollywood." - Marc Andreessen

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Skin in the Game

Incerto, Book 5

Nassim Taleb

Source: "Skin in the game as conflict of interest, or as attaching one's livelihood to one's speech? Who to listen to, and why." - Marc Andreessen

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Triumph of the City

How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

Edward Glaeser

Source: "How cities drive the development of civilization, by putting people together. Highly relevant to the future of the Internet!" - Marc Andreessen

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Golden Gates

Fighting for Housing in America

Conor Dougherty

Source: "On why we can't build in great American cities like San Francisco today and what we need to do about it." - Marc Andreessen

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The Power of Productivity

Wealth, Poverty, and the Threat to Global Stability

William W. Lewis

Source: "On how technology-driven productivity growth improves human welfare and creates more jobs and higher wages." - Marc Andreessen

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Expert Political Judgment

How Good Is It? How Can We Know?

Philip E. Tetlock

Source: "Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't." - Marc Andreessen

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The Machiavellians

Defenders of Freedom

James Burnham

Source: "Together [with 'The Managerial Revolution'], the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics." - Marc Andreessen

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Days of Rage

America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence

Bryan Burrough

Source: "How 1960s racial politics descended into 1970s terrorist bombings, thanks to privileged college students breaking very bad." - Marc Andreessen

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Play Nice But Win

A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader

Michael Dell

Source: "An incredible window into what it’s like to be in a founder’s shoes, and the difficult work of growing a company." - Marc Andreessen

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Edison

Edmund Morris

Source: "On perhaps the greatest American builder of all, the builder who brought electricity to us all, Thomas Edison." - Marc Andreessen

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The Managerial Revolution

What is Happening in the World

James Burnham

Source: "Together [with 'The Machiavellians'], the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics." - Marc Andreessen

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The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

Ben Horowitz

Source: "Let’s just say, we started out relationship with vigorous disagreement, and we’ve continued that to this day." - Marc Andreessen

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12 Rules for Life

An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan Peterson

Source: "A bracing disassembly and reconstruction of a theory of individual progress in the modern world." - Marc Andreessen

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Lone Survivor

The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Marcus Luttrell

Source: "The film was fine but the book is unreal; incredibly vivid story of superlative American heroes." - Marc Andreessen

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Believe in People

Charles Koch

Source: "An unrelenting picture of optimism that's a roadmap for solving our country's biggest problems." - Marc Andreessen

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Becoming Steve Jobs

The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader

Brent Schlender

Source: "In this deeply-researched book, you'll find the most honest portrait of the real Steve Jobs." - Marc Andreessen

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Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

How Generals, Weapons Manufacturers, and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy

Richard Hanania

Source: "A sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions." - Marc Andreessen

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Only the Paranoid Survive

How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company

Andrew S. Grove

Source: "One of my favorite topics. And so that is also a very good book [I] recommend." - Marc Andreessen

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Zero to One

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Peter Thiel

Source: "The first book any working or aspiring entrepreneur must read—period." - Marc Andreessen

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The Ancient City

Life in Classical Athens and Rome

Peter Connolly

Source: "The single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here." - Marc Andreessen

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The Tycoons

How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Charles R. Morris

Source: "On how four great builders of the 19th century built the world we live in today." - Marc Andreessen

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The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer

Source: "A brilliant book on the nature of mass movements and collective psychology." - Marc Andreessen

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Infamous Scribblers

The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism

Eric Burns

Source: "A great articulation of how the news business actually grew up in the US." - Marc Andreessen

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Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages

Carlota Perez

Source: "Describes a general model for the deployment of new technologies." - Marc Andreessen

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Born Standing Up

A Comic's Life

Steve Martin

Source: "Nothing about his career was an accident, which I thought was fascinating." - Marc Andreessen

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Blitzed

Drugs in the Third Reich

Norman Ohler

Source: "One of the craziest books I've ever read; highly recommend." - Marc Andreessen

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Thinking in Bets

Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

Annie Duke

Source: "Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital." - Marc Andreessen

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The Captive Mind

Czeslaw Milosz

Source: "The definitive work on intellectual life under totalitarianism." - Marc Andreessen

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The Power of the Powerless

Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe

Vaclav Havel

Source: "The definitive work on practical life under totalitarianism." - Marc Andreessen

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Without Their Permission

Alexis Ohanian

Source: "Software is eating the world and [this book] is your ultimate cookbook." - Marc Andreessen

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An Apology for the Builder

Nicholas Barbon

Source: "Written in 1685. [...] Some things never change!" - Marc Andreessen

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High Output Management

Andrew S. Grove

Source: "The best book on management ever written." - Marc Andreessen

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth

The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War

Robert J. Gordon

Source: "I disagree with the book, but it's a very well written book." - Marc Andreessen

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Behave

The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Robert M. Sapolsky

Source: "Robert Sapolsky's magnum opus on human behavior." - Marc Andreessen

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The Innovator's Dilemma

When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

Clayton M. Christensen

Source: "Really critical to understanding how this industry works." - Marc Andreessen

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Private Truths, Public Lies

The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification

Timur Kuran

Source: "The book that's had the biggest impact on me." - Marc Andreessen

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What You Do Is Who You Are

How to Create Your Business Culture

Ben Horowitz

Source: "My partner Ben Horowitz has a new book!" - Marc Andreessen

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How to Decide

Simple Tools for Making Better Choices

Annie Duke

Source: "Provides exercises for how to decide." - Marc Andreessen

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Walt Disney

The Triumph of the American Imagination

Neal Gabler

Source: "The best biography on Walt Disney." - Marc Andreessen

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How to Live

Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Sarah Bakewell

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Kill Decision

Daniel Suarez

Source: "It'll keep you up late at night." - Marc Andreessen

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The Myth of the Rational Voter

Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

Bryan Caplan

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Intellectuals and Society

Thomas Sowell

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Intellectuals

From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky

Paul Johnson

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Alexandre Kojève

Wisdom at the End of History

James H. Nichols Jr.

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The End of History and the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Ordeal of Civility

Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity

John Murray Cuddihy

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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No Offense

Civil Religion and Protestant Taste

John Murray Cuddihy

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Antifascism

The Course of a Crusade

Paul Gottfried

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Fascism

The Career of a Concept

Paul Gottfried

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Lenin on the Train

Catherine Merridale

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Joseph McCarthy

Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator

Arthur Herman

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Romance of American Communism

Vivian Gornick

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The God That Failed

Richard H. Crossman

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Hitler

A Biography

Ian Kershaw

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Hitler

A Biography

Ian Kershaw

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Hitler

A Biography

Ian Kershaw

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The New Right

A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

Michael Malice

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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War for Eternity

The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right

Benjamin R. Teitelbaum

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Second Coming of the KKK

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

Linda Gordon

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Ambassador

Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940

Susan Ronald

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Lindbergh

A. Scott Berg

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Mine Were of Trouble

A Nationalist Account of the Spanish Civil War

Peter Kemp

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Spain In Our Hearts

Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939

Adam Hochschild

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Vision of the Anointed

Thomas Sowell

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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A Conflict of Visions

Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

Thomas Sowell

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Who We Are and How We Got Here

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

David Reich

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The WEIRDest People in the World

How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Joseph Henrich

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Beyond Good And Evil

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Lenin

The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror

Victor Sebestyen

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Radical Chic

And Mau Mauing The Flak Catchers

Tom Wolfe

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Witness

Whittaker Chambers

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Guarded Gate

Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

Daniel Okrent

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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Homage to Catalonia

George Orwell

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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The Spanish Civil War

A Very Short Introduction

Helen Graham

Source: Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

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More from Less

The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources―and What Happens Next

Andrew McAfee

Source: "One of the best books [of 2019]." - Marc Andreessen

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The Wizard of Menlo Park

How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World

Randall E. Stross

Source: "A great biography of Edison." - Marc Andreessen

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A New World Begins

The History of the French Revolution

Jeremy D. Popkin

Source: "On the French Revolution." - Marc Andreessen

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Poor Charlie's Almanack

The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

Charlie Munger

Source: "Tremendous." - Marc Andreessen

0 recommenders

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Marc Andreessen Book Recommendations (111 Books)

The Lean Startup

The Strange Death of Europe

The Rational Optimist

Extreme Ownership

The Rise of Superman

The 4-Hour Workweek

Shattered

Chasing Hillary

But What If We're Wrong?

A Higher Loyalty

Devil's Bargain

The Spider Network

When the Wolves Bite

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Living with a SEAL

The Courage to Be Disliked

Conspiracy

The Maverick and His Machine

Can't Hurt Me

Schulz and Peanuts

Civilian Warriors

A Spy Among Friends

The Network State

A Very Expensive Poison

All Out War

Slugfest

The Fabric of Civilization

History Has Begun

A Guide to the Good Life

Whole Earth Discipline

Recapturing the Spirit of Enterprise

Hacks

Who Is Michael Ovitz?

Skin in the Game

Triumph of the City

Golden Gates

The Power of Productivity

Expert Political Judgment

The Machiavellians

Days of Rage

Play Nice But Win

Edison

The Managerial Revolution

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

12 Rules for Life

Lone Survivor

Believe in People

Becoming Steve Jobs

Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy

Only the Paranoid Survive

Zero to One

The Ancient City

The Tycoons

The True Believer

Infamous Scribblers

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital

Born Standing Up

Blitzed

Thinking in Bets

The Captive Mind

The Power of the Powerless

Without Their Permission

An Apology for the Builder

High Output Management

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Behave

The Innovator's Dilemma

Private Truths, Public Lies

What You Do Is Who You Are

How to Decide

Walt Disney

How to Live

Kill Decision

The Myth of the Rational Voter

Intellectuals and Society

Intellectuals

Alexandre Kojève