Recap of the books I read in 2024
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain Wilmington’s Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Enough The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don’t Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall On the Road Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Burn Book: A Tech Love Story Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever 2054: A Novel Three Pianos: A Memoir New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russia’s Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Demon Copperhead The CIA: An Imperial History Mill Town Russians Among Us: Sleeper Cells, Ghost Stories, and the Hunt for Putin’s Spies We Fed an Island Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008 Capital and Ideology Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires