1. Founder of Modern Economics: Paul Samuelson. The first volume of a biography written by Roger E. Backhouse. So far not rewarding, but I feel obliged to try to stick with it.

2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, by Irving Stone. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. In 1965, it was made into a blockbuster movie, which I never saw.

Michelangelo and Samuelson are each portrayed as having a great deal of self-confidence.