Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing expose of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
When the stories of our times are told, there will be no more
seminal documents than the books of Michael Lewis.
*Guardian*
He is so good everyone else may as well pack up.
*Evening Standard*
Michael Lewis is one of the premier chroniclers of our age.
*Huffington Post*
Superb ... It is tremendous fun, tremendously told. There is a lot
to take from it - about the inertia of the US civil service, about
the "malignant obedience" of middle managers, about how people
fearful of the pandemic were treated with the "wary indulgence of
the sane in the presence of the fanatic" ... Among those truths, in
a familiar lesson for much of the world this year, is the danger of
hubris.
*The Times*
A gripping story ... This is a book about some brave, curious
people who tried hard to swim against the tide. As always in a
Lewis book they are brought vividly alive ... Lewis is a master of
his form.
*The Sunday Times*
A fluid intellectual thriller ... As always with Lewis, the book is
full of fascinating facts and personal angles.
*Daily Telegraph Books of the Year 2021*
[Reading The Premonition] we see a disturbing common trait emerging
in our country and others: the unwillingness to prioritise people's
lives over ideas and ingrained structures.
*Observer Books of the Year 2021*
It is hard to think of a writer who has had more success than
Michael Lewis at turning forbiddingly complex situations into
propulsive nonfiction narratives ... Without his ever having to
spell it out, Lewis's message comes across very powerfully: the US
government, in its institutional dysfunction, is in danger of
abandoning its citizens to a private sector that is even less
equipped to deal with large-scale disasters such as Covid.
*The Guardian*
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