A national best-selling author whose subjects range from sports to economics, Michael Lewis has been hailed as a master storyteller by the New York Times. Here he examines the American economic collapse of the early 21st century, profiling very few heroes, numerous villains and several people who just should have known better. Lewis offers a biting rebuke to this motley band of financial " experts" with keen research and a sharp pen.
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November 20, 2014 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781464023248
- File size: 273440 KB
- Duration: 09:29:39
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- English
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AudioFile Magazine
Much of what caused the recent financial crisis is buried in complicated financial transactions and shady accounting practices. This book does an outstanding job of demystifying the schemes that led to the meltdown. As such, it's an accessible history of the period from 2005 to 2008, when the housing market imploded. Narrator Jesse Boggs has a pleasant, informative voice that conveys the book's ideas but misses the author's tone of outrage. Boggs's pitch does rise as the story becomes more outrageous, but his energy level still remains too low for the compelling nature of the events he recounts. His pacing and diction are excellent, and his decision to underplay the characters allows the debacle itself to take center stage. Nonetheless, one can't help wishing for a more forceful delivery. R.I.G. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine -
Publisher's Weekly
May 3, 2010
Although Lewis is perhaps best known for his sports-related nonfiction (including The Blind Side), his first book was the autobiographical Liar’s Poker, in which he chronicled his disillusionment as a young gun on Wall Street in the “greed is good” 1980s. He returns to his financial roots to excavate the crisis of 2007–2008, employing his trademark technique of casting a microcosmic lens on the personal histories of several Wall Street outsiders who were betting against the grain—to shed light on the macrocosmic tale of greed and fear. Although Lewis reads the book’s introduction, narration duties are assumed by Jesse Boggs, a veteran narrator of business titles (including Lewis’s own 2008 book Panic!). Boggs’s rich baritone is well suited to the task and trips lightly through a maze of financial jargon (CDOs, derivatives, mid-prime lending) and a dizzying cast of characters. Lewis returns on the final disc for a 10-minute interview about the crisis’s aftermath, including a savvy assessment of the wisdom of the financial bailout and where-are-they-now updates on the book’s various heroes and villains. A Norton hardcover.
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