Jun 2026 Q&A: Breaking From Trump, Reforming American Democracy & Book Recs

June 30
26 mins

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It's the June Q&A on Open Book, and you came at me with everything this month: aliens, whether there's a reckoning coming when Trump's term ends, and the honest reason it took me so long to break from him. I'm dodging none of it, plus I'm handing you a summer's worth of book recommendations. Keep the questions coming in the comments.


📚Books mentioned in this episode:

1. One Up On Wall Street by Peter Lynch

2. The Essays of Warren Buffett by Lawrence Cunningham

3. The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

4. Power Failure by William D. Cohan

5. Money and Power by William Cohen

6. The Last Tycoons by William Cohen

7. Money to Burn by William Cohen

8. Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed

9. 1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World by Liaquat Ahamed

10. Criminal Violence Criminal Justice by Charles Silberman

11. Tyrants and Rogues by Robert G. Parkinson

12. A Perfect Coincidence by Jim Rasenberger

13. Regime Change by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

14. 1942: Crux of War by Jonathan Parshall

15. Ike and Winston by Jonathan W.Jordan

16. Robin by Dave Itzkoff

17. Ten Caesars by Barry Strauss


Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.


Pre-order my next book, All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump, out on the 17th of September in the UK and the 22nd of September in the US: ⁠https://www.scaramucci.net/allthewrongmoves

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