Resources

Suggested Readings

American History and Politics

The Federalist Papers
By Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

The Anti-Federalist Papers
By George Clinton, Robert Yates, Samuel Bryan, et al.

Democracy in America
By Alexis de Tocqueville

The Civil War:  A Narrative
By Shelby Foote

Frederick Douglass:  Autobiographies
By Frederick Douglass

The Last Campaign:  Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days that Inspired America
By Thurston Clarke

John Adams
By David McCullough

Founding Brothers:  The Revolutionary Generation
By Joseph J. Ellis

Team of Rivals:  The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin

Truman
By David McCullough

America’s Constitution:  A Biography
By Akhil Reed Amar

Supreme Court

The Brethren
By Bob Woodward

The Nine, Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court
By Jeffery Toobin

International Theme

Three Cups of Tea:  One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time
By Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin

A Long Way Gone:  Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By Ishmael Beah

A Thousand Hills:  Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It
By Stephen Kinzer

From Beirut to Jerusalem
By Thomas Friedman

The End of Poverty
By Jeffery Sachs

The World is Flat
By Thomas Friedman

The Post American World
By Fareed Zakaria

Mountains Beyond Mountains
By Tracy Kidder

Jihad vs McWorld
By Benjamin Barber

Business and Economics

Freakonomics  
By Steven Levitt

Good to Great
By Jim Collins

Tipping Point
By Malcholm Gladwell

Blink
By Malcholm Gladwell

The Choice
By Russell Roberts

Foundations of Economics
By Yaris Varoufakis

In Search of Excellence
By Thomas J Peters and Robert Waterman

The Practice of Management
By Peter Drucker

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Highlights

11/20/08 – New Study Finds Americans, Including Elected Officials, Earn a Failing Grade When Tested on American History and Economics

Read what the Class of 2008 Nethercutt Fellows had to say about their Washington, DC experience in their 2008 DC Blog

View photos from the 2008 Nethercutt Fellows Washington, DC trip.