David M. Rubenstein—visionary co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show— has long dedicated himself to interviewing some of the world’s greatest minds and highest performing leaders. In The American Story, Rubenstein brought us conversations from the nation’s most revered historians on critical lessons from American history. In the bestselling How to Lead, he distilled conversations with the world’s most successful leaders into an essential leadership playbook.

About the author:

David M. Rubenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story. He is co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private equity firms. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an original signer of The Giving Pledge and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award. The host of The David Rubenstein Show on Bloomberg TV and PBS, he lives in the Washington, DC area.