Recommended Reading
The books that shaped PoorMac's worldview.
Geopolitics, economics, history, and strategy. Every book here earned its place by changing how we think about the world.
Geopolitics & Strategy
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning
The definitive guide to how demographics, geography, and deglobalization will reshape the world order. If you read one book on why the post-WWII system is ending, make it this one.
Buy on AmazonDisunited Nations
Country-by-country breakdown of who survives deglobalization and who doesn't. Zeihan at his most provocative — and most useful for understanding the alliances that matter.
Buy on AmazonThe Accidental Superpower
Why America's geography makes it the most naturally advantaged nation in history. The foundation for understanding why American hegemony isn't an accident — it's terrain.
Buy on AmazonPrisoners of Geography
Ten maps that explain everything about world politics. Why Russia needs Ukraine, why China can't project power past the first island chain, and why Africa's borders guarantee conflict.
Buy on AmazonThe Revenge of Geography
Kaplan argues that the physical landscape still determines the fate of nations. Essential reading for anyone who thinks technology has made geography irrelevant.
Buy on AmazonThe Grand Chessboard
Brzezinski's blueprint for American geostrategy in Eurasia. Written in 1997, still disturbingly accurate about the fault lines that matter today.
Buy on AmazonHistory & Civilization
Dominion
How Christianity shaped the Western mind — including the secular values we think we invented independently. The most important book on Western civilization most people haven't read.
Buy on AmazonThe Lessons of History
A hundred pages distilling the Durants' eleven-volume history of civilization into patterns that repeat. Dense, brilliant, and endlessly re-readable.
Buy on AmazonThe Clash of Civilizations
Huntington's controversial thesis that post-Cold War conflict would follow civilizational fault lines. Mocked in the '90s, looking prophetic now.
Buy on AmazonEconomics & Markets
The Intelligent Investor
The bible of value investing. Graham's framework for thinking about markets with discipline rather than emotion. Warren Buffett calls it the best investing book ever written.
Buy on AmazonThe Price of Tomorrow
Why technology is inherently deflationary and why central banks fighting deflation with money printing is a losing game. A contrarian take on the macro environment.
Buy on AmazonChip War
How semiconductors became the most fought-over resource on Earth. Essential for understanding the Taiwan question and why CHIPS Act politics matter to your portfolio.
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