We asked, and you delivered… an ELGL member and politics professor who teaches an internship course asked for feedback on the books he should include on the syllabus. Here’s what you recommended:
- The Federalist Papers by Hamilton, Madison & Jay
- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman
- Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
- We Don’t Make Widgets by Ken Miller
- Extreme Government Makeover by Ken Miller
- Culture Code by Daniel Coyle
- The Prince by Machiavelli
- The Dictators Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith
- The Leader’s Bookshelf by James G. Stavridis and R. Manning Ancell
- State of Disrepair by Kori N. Schake
- Trust Me I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher
- The Price of Government by David Osborne
- People Skills for Policy Analysts by Michael Mintrom
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- The Power Broker by Robert Caro
- Caught Between the Dog and the Fireplug, or How to Survive Public Service by Kenneth Ashworth
- Survive & Advance in Local Government
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- Peak Performance by Charles A. Garfield & Hal Zina Bennett
- Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest by Peter Block
- Presenting Data Effectively by Stephanie Evergreen
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists by Courtney Martin
- Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
- A Prayer for the City by Buzz Bissinger.
- Streetfight by Janette Sadik-Khan
- A Practical Guide for Policy Analysis by Eugene Bardach
- Nudge by Richard Thaler
- The Mayor of Castro Street by Randy Shilts
- Reinventing Government by Gaebler and Osborne
- Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
- The New Urban Crisis by Richard Florida
- Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- When It’s Your Turn by Seth Godin
- Creativity Inc by Ed Catmull
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel Brown
- What to do When Machines do Everything by Malcolm Frank
- The AI Advantage by Thomas Davenport
- WTF What the Future by Tim O’Reilly
- The Future of Work by Darrel West
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
- The Deep Learning Revolution by Terrence J. Sejnowski
- The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos