I came across this strong contender for 'read of the year' while reading The Toyota Way. What book could be so important that it was the only one framed in the Toyota museum? A practical guide for the aspiring "self-made" man, although nothing of the sort actually exists.
Through various stories of british inventors and entrepreneurs living in the 1700/1800's it touches on all the great values an industrious, energetic person should possess for moving ahead. I'd always associated America with invention, forgetting the Brits did it at scale a hundred years before.
Here's a Twitter Moment of my favorite quotes from the book.