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What are some books worth reading that are written by important or otherwise famous historical figures? I'm thinking those specifically that aren't associated with literary tradition (ie Plato, Shakespeare or Goethe) but more people involved in something 'greater' than the contribution of their literary work.
Personally I can only think of:
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
- Art of War by Sun Tzu
- The Alexiad by Anna Komnene
- Basilikon Doron by James VI and I
- Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli
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currently reading 5 rings and meditations and I am liking them so far. You could try "either/or" by Soren Kierkegaard (early existentialist christian philosophy) or maybe "the temple of the golden pavilion" by Yukio Mishima (more "literary" but mishima had some weird political beliefs and ideals about imperialism and duty)
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Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs
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Machiavellis The Prince
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Its a meme but Mein Kampf
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Winston Churchill's History of the English-Speaking Peoples
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Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars
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Richard Wagner's My Life and Mozart's letters to his father.
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Xenophon's Anabasis and Hellenica. He was Plato-tier intellectual that also led a mercenary army on the most daring trek through Persia to date.
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Thucydides was a general at Amphipolis during the Peloponnesian war
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The Kingis Quair by James I of Scotland is pretty good
James VI also wrote a fascinating treatise on poetry, it goes into surprising detail about the best meters to use for certain topics and which language to use as well
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