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Michael lewis, the bestselling author of liars poker, the money culture, the new new thing, moneyball, the blind side, panic, home game, the big short, and boomerang, among other works, lives in berkeley, california, with his wife and three children. Furthermore, clark insists that he cant see the future and anyone who claims to be a visionary is talking perfect bullshit. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Well, my mind when trump was elected was on the subject of risk because i just finished a book, the undoing project, about peoples. The changes in sports are known as the moneyball revolution, after the title of. Lewis, is faisonpiersonstoddard professor of art at williams college and received a guggenheim fellowship for his recent city of refuge. The new york times michiko kakutan lewis does for the late 1990s world of technogeeks and software cowboys what he did in liars poker for the 1980s wall street world of traders and arbitrageurs. Norton will publish in october, paints a dire picture. Like all michael lewis books, its written with great clarity and fluency. Jan 15, 2014 michael lewis, whose colorful reporting on money and excess on wall street has made him one of the countrys most popular business journalists, has written a new book on the financial world, his. In his new book, the undoing project, lewis tells the the lives. Joe klein, new york times michael lewis s brilliant narrative of the trump administrations botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. Michael lewiss next book promises to be a pageturner about. Like his other books, lewis explores a cultural phenomenon from the ground up, telling it through rich narrative.
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