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Bob Duffy's Top Book Recommendations

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The untold story of how America once created the most successful economy the world has ever seen and how we can do it again.

The American economy glitters on the outside, but the reality is quite different. Job opportunities and economic growth are increasingly concentrated in a few crowded coastal enclaves. Corporations and investors are disproportionately developing technologies that benefit the wealthiest Americans in the most prosperous areas--and destroying middle class jobs elsewhere. To turn this tide, we must look to a brilliant and all-but-forgotten American success...
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Bob DuffyWe love Jonathan Gruber’s book/the fact that he ranked Rochester #1. ⁦⁦@melindagates⁩ Jump-Starting America: New book by MIT's Jonathan Gruber and Simon Johnson argues that public investment in science is key to revving up the U.S. growth engine https://t.co/5UF51TQGis (Source)

Gene SperlingJump-Starting America is an important book by Simon Johnson @baselinescene & Jon Gruber. Combines 2 powerful ideas: importance of BIG public research and regional strategies for middle-class job creation strategy. Big idea here that deserves attention. https://t.co/wSJOI8Kxgt (Source)

Ro Khanna@Noahpinion Love the book (Source)

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The larger-than-life journey of an 18-year-old college freshman who set out from his dorm room to track down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga, and dozens more of the world's most successful people to uncover how they broke through and launched their careers.

The Third Door takes readers on an unprecedented adventure--from hacking Warren Buffett's shareholders meeting to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to celebrating in a nightclub with Lady Gaga--as Alex Banayan travels from icon to icon, decoding their success. After remarkable one-on-one interviews with Bill Gates,...
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Recommended by Alok Kejriwal, Bob Duffy, and 2 others.

Alok KejriwalJust completed this book. Pointers : - amazing stories of struggles to get started - very entrepreneur/ startup - some of the interviews r motivating - the Warren Buffett part is a great lesson in “don’t believe what anyone says unless you’ve figured it out yourself” 6/10 https://t.co/F9O1JA1Cch (Source)

Bob DuffyJust finished reading “The Third Door” by @AlexBanayan - who will be in Rochester on 9/6 to speak at the @RochesterChambr @InnovativeSol Tech Conference. The book is a great read about Alex’s mission/story. Inspirational. Thank you Justin Copie for the book. (Source)

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