Greg's Book Club
Learning and education are keys that unlock the doors that lead us to the rooms for our financial success, values, and life. Here you will find current as well as past books that I have read along with various interviews with some of the authors. Please feel free to email me with thoughts, debates, questions and dialogue..
Listed here are brief summaries to each book. Click on "full review" to view my entire review. There are audio interviews posted with selected authors so you can hear their own perspective on their book.
Current Reading List
- Directionally Challenged: How to Find and Follow God’s Course for Your Life, by Travis Collins
- Regardless of your religious beliefs you will benefit from reading this book and applying it's principles to find direction for your life…full review.
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- Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, by Michael R. Beschloss
- Michael Beschloss pulls back the curtain and gives us a never before seen behind the scenes look into the Presidents of the United States coping with supreme dilemmas in their lives and leadership…full review.
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- While America Aged: How Pensions Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis, by Roger Lowenstein
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In Roger Lowenstein’s latest book the reader learns how governments and corporations across the United States have used pensions as a way to gain favor with unions only to see the day of reckoning arrive with cumulative retirement deficits approaching $1 trillion dollars…full review.
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- Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, by Roger Lowenstein
- Roger Lowenstein’s book gives great insight into the philosophy of Warren Buffett. It confirms that not only is Buffett a wizard at investing and …full review.
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- The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, & Jeffry Zaslow
- A computer science professor, husband and father of three children, diagnosed with terminal cancer....
full review .
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- Real Change: From the World That Fails to the World That Works, by Newt Gingrich with Vince Haley and Rick Tyler
- Regardless of your political viewpoints, Newt Gingrich’s book, Real Change, opens up discussions and debate as to what possibilities are out there as solutions to issues facing our nation today…full review.
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- The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell by Oren Harari
- I've read this book several times. Not a biography nor a tribute to Colin Powell, but rather a book of wisdom...full review.
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? by Seth Godin
Seth Godin has done it once again. Meatball Sundae explores how the new tools of marketing seem irresistible as people become convinced that traditional marketing methods are fading away…full review. |
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