4 Box Set - Liar's Poker; Pacific Rift; Money Culture; The New New Thing
About this book
This BoxSet Include These Titles 1.) New New Thing In the last years of the millennium, bestselling authorMichael Lewis sets out to find the world's most importanttechnology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of thecoming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, the billionaire who foundedNetscape and Silicon Graphics and who now aims to turn thehealthcare industry on its head with his new billion dollarproject. Lewis accompanies Clark on the maiden voyage of his vastyacht and, on the sometimes hazardous journey, takes the reader on the ride of a lifetime through a landscape of geeks and billionaires. Through every brilliant anecdote and funny character sketch,Michael Lewis allows us an inside look at the world of thesuper-rich, whilst drawing a map of free enterprise in the twentyfirst century 2.) Liar's Poker From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through thedealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during theheady mid 1980s when they were probably the world's most powerfuland profitable merchant bank. A true life Bonfire of the Vanities,funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, his is a tale ofhysterical greed and ambition set in an obsessed, enclosedworld. 3.) The Money Culture While Michael Lewis worked as a bond dealer at SalomonBrothers he began his second career as a journalist and helped torecord a real-life bonfire of the vanities. Not afraid ofinterviewing the world's most notorious financiers or of revealingthe treachery and deception behind some of the biggest financialdeals ever made, in The Money Culture, Lewis provides acontemporary record of the ups and downs of the world's moneymarkets and the rise