Lloyd Blankfein's Book Recommendations
Lloyd Blankfein is an American investment banker and businessman who served as the CEO and chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018. He is now the firm's Senior Chairman. Based on his book recommendations, he seems to enjoy history and biographies.
📚 Books Recommended by Lloyd Blankfein 5
No Ordinary Time
"Early in the book a good discussion of Roosevelt’s leadership in mobilizing industry."
book list View source ↗"Book rec: No Ordinary Time, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. About the “home front” in WWII. Early in the book a good discussion of Roosevelt’s leadership in mobilizing industry (whose hatred he had welcomed!) as the country transformed into the “arsenal of democracy.” Relevant."
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Destined for War
"Informs the moment like Guns of August did for Kennedy in [the] Cuban Missile Crisis."
Dead Wake
"[The author] makes these narrow events -- gives a lot of texture to them and makes them feel very vivid."
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The Wright Brothers
"Lloyd Blankfein recommended this book on the "Exchanges at Goldman Sachs" podcast."
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The Discoverers
"Lloyd Blankfein recommended this book on the "Exchanges at Goldman Sachs" podcast."
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