On the bookshelves of the digerati
Audrey Weil
senior VP and general manager, CompuServe.
Lincoln by Gore Vidal. "The fun of reading the book - a well-researched but somewhat embellished historical fiction - is imagining it happening that way. Lincoln's one of my favorite figures in history because he was such a persistent person in difficult circumstances. But he also had feelings. He experienced self-doubt. He wasn't always sure he was doing the right thing, and he felt a lot of angst sometimes. I think he tried for 20 political offices before he was elected president. As a former longtime resident of the DC area, I particularly enjoyed the accounts of Civil War-era Washington. Of course, I can't compare my life to Lincoln's, except to say that I appreciate the challenges he faced."
James Slavet
president and chief guru, Guru.com.
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing. "In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton set off aboard the Endurance, bound for the South Pole. Shackleton and company ended up getting trapped in the pack ice for over a year. They ate seals and dug themselves little ice fortresses so they could brave the elements, and the entire crew survived; when the wind blew them closer to the shore, their spirits would be up, and when it blew them out to the ocean, they'd think they were going to die. The story actually has a lot of parallels to the process of starting a company, where you have to recognize there is some stuff beyond your control."
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