John Adams

As an American, I highly recommend "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen. And since you are reading 1776 then you might also like "John Adams" by David McCullough.

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How can there be 71 comments and not one mention of G. K. Chesterton? Go out, right now, and check out The Everlasting Man and Orthodoxy from your local library. I would also throw out there Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford, as something to inspire makers & engineers without being a technical book. If you like history, David McCullough's biography John Adams is a masterpiece (also see 1776 by the same author). I can't think of anything else that hasn't already been mentioned.

John Forbes Nash: "A Beautiful Mind" by Sylvia Nasir Richard Feynman: "Genius" by James Gleick "The Passion of Ayn Rand" by Barbara Brandon "John Adams" and "Truman" by David McCullough "Lincoln the Unknown" by Dale Carnegie