Bill Gates's Blog: Gates Notes, page 57

The Future of College

Bill Gates delivers prepared remarks to the 2014 NACUBO Annual Meeting about the future of college education and the problem of low completion rates.

The Bully Pulpit

Bill Gates’s summer reading list includes “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism,” by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Reinventing American Health Care

Bill Gates’s summer reading list includes “Reinventing American Health Care: how the Affordable Care Act Will Improve Our Terribly Complex, Blatantly Unjust, Outrageously Expensive, Grossly Inefficient, Error Prone System,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Bill Gates’s summer reading list includes “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,” by Elizabeth Kolbert.

The Rosie Project: A Novel

Bill Gates’s summer reading list includes “The Rosie Project,” by Graeme Simsion.

A Front Row View of the Financial Crisis

Bill Gates reviews Timothy Geithner’s memoir “Stress Test,” which sheds light on how the former Treasury Secretary and his colleagues battled the Great Recession.

6 Books I'd Recommend

Bill Gates recommends six books to read this summer: “Business Adventures” by John Brooks, “The Bully Pulpit” by Doris Kearns Goodwin, “The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion, “The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert, and “Reinventing American Health Care” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel.

The Best Business Book I’ve Ever Read

Bill Gates shares his thoughts on his favorite business book, “Business Adventures” by John Brooks, which was recommended to him by Warren Buffett.

A Story From One of My Heroes

Bill Foege is a giant in the field of global health and a hero to Bill Gates. This story from Bill Foege about how a coalition came together to fight river blindness captures the power of partnerships to improve health for the poorest people in the world.

A Cautionary Tale From Africa

Bill Gates reviews the book The Idealist by Nina Munk, about Jeffrey Sachs’ ambitious project to fight poverty and save lives in Africa.