Alex Drost · books I’ve read
Alex Drost’s bookshelf — 321 books, annotated and connected.
Years of reading in one place — and 1,256 hand-made connections between the books.
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Dear Chairman: Boardroom Battles and the Rise of Shareholder Activism
Hedge fund manager and Columbia professor Jeff Gramm's history of shareholder activism, told through eight case studies built…
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan · 2023 · read Feb 2025Timothy Egan's narrative history of the 1920s second Klan — particularly its Indiana stronghold under D.C.
Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment
Jason Schreier · 2024 · read Apr 2025Jason Schreier's institutional history of Blizzard Entertainment — Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Overwatch —…
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
John P. Carlin · 2018 · read Jun 2025Former DOJ National Security Division head John Carlin's account of building the legal framework for treating state-actor cyber…
Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
Michael V. Hayden · 2016 · read Jun 2025General Michael Hayden's memoir from his vantage as director of NSA (1999-2005) and CIA (2006-2009) — the operational and legal…
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in History – and How It Shattered a Nation
Andrew Ross Sorkin · 2025 · read Oct 2025Andrew Ross Sorkin's narrative reconstruction of the 1929 stock-market crash and its immediate aftermath — the specific days, the…
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
Stephen Witt · 2025 · read Nov 2025Stephen Witt's biography of Jensen Huang and the company he founded — Nvidia's evolution from graphics-card maker to the central…
