“Reading the book is a rite of passage for New York’s political class, a pledge to learn the art of politics as it is practiced in big cities, not textbooks. To display the book prominently is to signal that you, too, understand how politics works” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/28/nyregion/power-broker-tv.html …
“It’s the sort of book that makes its presence felt. It is quite large, the letters along its spine are big and bright, and readers are required to own it in print, because Mr. Caro, who still uses a typewriter, has refused to distribute the written version in any other way” 
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I just wish Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith would rename their “Dictator’s Handbook” to “Rules for Rulers,” because that’s the power brokering book signal I want to see https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Politics/dp/161039044X/ …
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