Books in Charlie Munger's Library:
Influence by Robert Cialdini,
Einstein by Walter Isaacson,
Go East Young Man (memoir of William O. Douglas),
Eugene Meyer bio (Father of Kay Graham, Chair of Fed in 30s),
Max Planck bio,
John Kenneth Galbraith’s Ambassadors Journal,
Set of the Harvard Classics,
Copey of Harvard by James Donald Adams,
Autobiography of Mark Twain,
Federalist Papers,
Capital (history of Capital Group) by Charley Ellis,
Current Value Line Binder,
Set of Shakespeare at the top,
Possibly a set of Balzac.
LQ was always a labor of love supported by a handful of Lapham's friends and supporters. He was recently still coming into the office everyday at 87 and was actively editing the journal.
Lapham dropped out of Cambridge (where his advisor was CS Lewis) and went to work as a beat reporter at the SF Chronicle in the 1950s. LQ was always his dream of the the perfect magazine, and it is great that he achieved it.
The issues are evergreen. Some of my favorites are Technology, Celebrity and Swindles & Frauds.
If there is one takeaway from all the issues it is that there is nothing new under the sun.
It's called Winning Through Intimidation, and it is a very funny story of how he learned to not get burned in real estate transactions by being prepared for the inevitable tricks people would try to play on him. Short and lots of sage advice.
