PIMCO CEO Manny Roman recommends three books

Manny Roman oversees $1.7 trillion as CEO of PIMCO. He recently recommended three books at an investment conference, one of which Barack Obama and Bill Gates have also praised.His top picks are “Educated,” a memoir by Tara Westover about growing up in a fundamentalist family, and biographies of Winston Churchill and Frederick Douglass. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.PIMCO's CEO Manny Roman oversees $1.7 trillion, but still finds time to read. At Morningstar's annual investment conference in Chicago last week, Roman talked tech and asset management, as well as book recommendations. He highlighted three recent picks. See more: An investment chief overseeing $100 billion at Pimco says beware of the 'riskiest corporate market we've ever had' — and offers these strategies for surviving the next recession