Looking for suggestions. Can be fiction or non-fiction.
Ask HN: Books about people who persevered when no one else believed in them?
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#2Ayn Rand novels have this theme IIRC.
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#3Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs
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#4Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature's "Secret Fire" by William Newman details Isaac Newton's long-term studies in alchemy.
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#6two from finance:
Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff // Christine Richard
Fooling Some of the People All of the Time // David Einhorn
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#8Ball Lightning by Cixin Liu is about a scientist who decides to dedicate his life to studying ball lightning (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning) when nobody takes it seriously
Lift Off by Eric Berger details early days of SpaceX
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#9Martin Eden by Jack London
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#10The Splendid and the Vile