What the brightest minds are reading this summer
It’s beach time for On the Money. and that means that while it’s time to kill some brain cells with tequila, it’s also time to fill ’er up wit♕h some serious reading.
We ♑canvassed the brightest minds to see what they’ve got on their bedside tables or in the beach bags this🌟 summer. Get an edge and read their suggestions before the September starting gun goes off.
(1) Anthony Scaramucci, the New York financier turned Washington politico, is reading Graham Allison’s this summer as he becomes mor🍌e entrenched in DC culture.
The book offers “his🌺torical context for how superpowers deal with rising powers a﷽nd is an excellent summary of current China,” Scaramucci told “On the Money.”
(2) Chris Blackwell, the Jamaican founder of Island Records: “I am reading a book about [formerꩵ Warner Music boss] Ahmet Ertegun, who was my hero in the record business. It’s called It⭕ was published five years ago, and it’s really great!
“Ahmet and I became fast friends in the early 1960s and remained so until he passed away after a backstage accident at a Rolling🌟 Stones concert.”
(3) Dan Abrams, founder of Abrams Media: “I am going through a World War II phas🗹e in my reading.
“I just fin🅷ished by Lynne Olson, about the battle between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles Lindbergh over what US involvement should [have been] leading up to World War II.
“That led me to the book also by Lynne Olson, about Britain’s role as the hub for all the 🦩major leaders in exile and the official and unofficial underground subterfuge networks,𓄧 during World War II.”
(4) Ari Em🅠anuel, co-CEO of WME/IMG, revealed he read by Bharat Anand. He liked it so much he hired the author to be a consultant.
The book is about how companies from China’s Ten Cent to The Economist are meeti💎ng the digital age challenges of how to get noticed — and pai🎃d.
“Companies that now flourish are finding that the connections they foster are more important than the ෴content they create,” the book states.
(5) JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon is reading by Yuval Noah Harari. The book focuses on the evolutionary bi🐻ology shaping human development.
(6) Ever-brash short-seller Andrew Left of Citrꦗon Research of♉fered up two books to “On the Money.”
Left, known for his colorful pharma attacks, is reading Mark🐠 Manson’s “
(7) Glenn Beck, the conservative media host, has some diverse selections this sea༺son, including by Jonathan Haidt, who proposes s🍸ome answers on how to heal the country.
On the flip side, Beck is also reading by Scott M. Marshall. Dylan is a fascinating man who has taken a fascinating jo෴urney, Beck saꦅid.
(8) Marisa Thalberg, Chief Marketing Officer of Taco Bell, came out of her shell to tell us, “I love to read great fiction so: recent favorite was .” Currently reading . At the top of my queue for this summer: and non-fiction:
(9) Eliah Seton, President, ADA, a division of Warner Music Group, has a hankering for food. Seton’s reading by Danny Meyer. “Danny Meyer, who started Union Square Café, Gramercy Tavern and Eleven Madison, not to mention the Shake Shack empire, changed the restaurant industry through his approach of “enlightened hospitality.” For me, as a provider of service to artists, managers and indie labels, the lessons are so clear – it’s not about a one-way street of service but a two-way dialogue in which we listen to one another and build a relationship from there,” Seton said.
(10) Celebrity Chef, Charlie Palmer, is taking a break from the cook books to read by Bob Rich. “I just spent a week in Argentina fishing and hunting and I came back wanting to move there. I’m hoping this novel on fishing and family will continue to bring me back there mentally for the rest of the summer (or until I finish it…).”