Patterson School Summer Reading List 2026 and Book Club Dates
The Patterson School has chosen the following texts for our summer reading this year:
Raj Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff. 2024. Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley are Transforming the Future of War.
David Shambaugh. 2025. Breaking the Engagement: How China Won and Lost America.
Ernest Scheyder. 2024. The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.
Monica Duffy Toft and Sidita Kushi. 2023. Dying by the Sword: The Militarization of US Foreign Policy.
Sven Beckert. 2025. Capitalism: A Global History.
Edward Fishman. 2025. Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare.
Vali Nasr. 2025. Iran's Grand Strategy: A Political History.
Anne Applebaum. 2024. Autocracy Inc: the Dictators Who Want to Run the World.
Book Club Dates: All Book Clubs are in the Cornerstone Exchange (401 S Limestone, Lexington, KY. 40508):
May 26th, 7-9PM: Autocracy, Inc.
June 23rd, 7-9PM: Capitalism: A Global History
July 28th, 7-9PM: Chokepoints
August 14th, 7-9PM: Iran's Grand Strategy