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Authors

American Entrepreneur and Philanthropist · 1955
Bill Gates

Co-founder of Microsoft who helped shape personal computing and later became a major global philanthropist.

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American essayist and philosopher · 1803-1882
Ralph Waldo Emerson

American essayist, poet and philosopher whose essays made him a leading voice of 19th-century Transcendentalism.

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President of the United States · 1917-1963
John F. Kennedy

American politician who served as the 35th US president during a pivotal period of the Cold War.

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American investor and businessman · 1924-2023
Charlie Munger

Investor and Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman known for value investing and long-term business judgement.

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American writer and philosopher · 1817-1862
Henry David Thoreau

Essayist and transcendentalist known for Walden, civil disobedience and influential writing on nature and society.

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President of the United States · 1882-1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Thirty-second US president who led the country through the Great Depression and most of the Second World War.

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Works

Bill Gates · 2025
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A memoir of Gates's childhood, education, early fascination with computers, partnership with Paul Allen, and the beginnings of Microsoft.

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John F. Kennedy · 1940
Why England Slept

An analysis of why Britain rearmed slowly before the Second World War, examining appeasement, democratic politics, public opinion, economics and military preparedness.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1838
Harvard Divinity School Address

An address arguing that religious faith should arise from direct moral and spiritual experience rather than dependence on doctrine, tradition or miracles.

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