If you're lucky enough to be hired at Ricther7, these are three books the agency's president, Dave Newbold, will suggest you read. Not because they're advertising books (okay, "Whipple" is), but because they're about creativity, and what it means to create.The Agony and the Ecstasy is Irving Stone's novelized biography of Michaelangelo, which he's cobbled together from the Master's actual correspondence. Here's a guy who not only sculpts, paints and writes, he becomes legendary in each arena. Why? Because he's creatively driven. The movie with Charleston Heston is pretty good. The novel is fantastic. If you don't have time to read it now, be sure to before your next visit to Florence.
The Fountainhead is Ayn Rand's epic story of Howard Roark, an architect who will not cave in to convention. While everyone around him is insisting the best work has already been accomplished (Renaissance, Gothic, Roman, or whatever they happen to consider "the best"), Roark follows his own creative vision. It's loosely based on and inspired by the life of Frank Lloyd Wright. If an early attempt at Atlas Shrugged turned you off to Rand's philosophy, give The Fountainhead a try. If you are a creative person, I can almost guarantee this book will speak to you.
Do we really need to talk about why Hey, Whipple is included? No. If you haven't read it by now, dear student, shame on you.