The Highest Calling
Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM

David Rubenstein has made a study of successful leadership. In his books and podcasts, he explores the world’s highest performing leaders and shares keen insights about what qualities shaped their rise. His popular podcast, The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations, highlights leadership through the personal and professional choices of the most influential people in business. In his book, The Highest Calling, Rubenstein chronicles the journeys of the presidents who have defined America as it exists now, what they envision for its future, and their legacy on the world stage. Join us as he speaks with Marie Arana—author most recently of LatinoLand (2024), as well as Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story and Bolivar, and the inaugural Literary Director of the Library of Congress—on what great leaders have in common. Rubenstein and Arana are collaborating on a new television show about authors and their ideas, America’s Book Club, scheduled to premiere on C-SPAN this fall.

Marie Arana David Rubenstein

Further thinking 

BOOK: The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency, by David Rubenstein

BOOK: how to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers, by David Rubenstein

BOOK: LatinoLand: A Portrait of America's Largest and Least Understood Minority, by Marie Arana

BOOK: Silver Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story, by Marie Arana

BOOK: Bolivar: American Liberator, by Marie Arana