It's certainly a choice to call Napoleon, poster boy for great man history, underrated, but I think it's emblematic of the kind of thinking that makes up this l

It's certainly a choice to call Napoleon, poster boy for great man history, underrated, but I think it's emblematic of the kind of thinking that makes up this list. It's also pretty notable how few of these choices are fiction of any sort. They're mainly non-fiction books describing conventionally successful people and organizations.