Five best books about ambition

Warren Adler is a novelist, short story writer and playwright. His novels include The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, which have been made into popular movies.His new novel, Funny Boys, is due out this month.For the Wall Street Journal, he named five "favorite works about ambition, political and otherwise."The oldest title on Adler's list:The Red and the Blackby Stendhal1830One has to work