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Michael Lewis

“How some of Wall Street’s finest minds managed to destroy $1.75 trillion of wealth” – that is the shorthand version of the new book coming out this week by celebrated author Michael Lewis, on The Music Hall stage Wednesday April 7 as part of the Writers on a New England Stage series. Lewis was interviewed on CBS’ 60 Minutes Sunday March 14. Here from 60 Minutes:

If you had to pick someone to write the autopsy report on the Wall Street financial collapse 18 months ago, you couldn’t do any better than Michael Lewis. He is one of the country’s preeminent non-fiction writers with a knack for turning complicated, mind numbing material into fascinating yarns. He wrote his first bestseller, “Liar’s Poker,” about his experiences as a young Wall Street bond trader when he was still in his 20s and has since followed up with seven more bestsellers on subjects ranging from Silicon Valley in “The New New Thing” to big time sports in “Money Ball” and “The Blind Side,” (made into a motion picture with Academy Award winner for best actress, Sandra Bullock.) His new book, called “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” comes out later this week and it explains how some of Wall Street’s finest minds managed to destroy $1.75 trillion of wealth in the subprime mortgage markets. Check out the link below.

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