Michael Lewis

Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen!» Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI »Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra att bli påmind då och då om hur genialitet ser ut.« | MALCOLM GLADWELL, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEWNär finanskraschen på den amerikanska aktiemarknaden blev allmänt känd 2008 hade den egentligen redan pågått ett bra tag i det dolda. Den verkliga historien började nämligen på bisarra marknader, dit solljuset inte nådde och där tillsynsmyndigheterna inte ville befinna sig. Marknader där skygga genier och särlingar överlistade hela finansmarknaden och tjänade enorma summor på amerikaner som inte kunde betala sina skulder. De insiktsfulla personer som förstod vad som hände, eller kanske hände, var paralyserade av hopp och rädsla; hur som helst sade de ingenting. Michael Lewis skriver en uppslukande, karaktärsdriven berättelse, sprängfylld av indignation och svart humor. Utifrån en handfull osannolika - verkligt osannolika - hjältar, skapar Lewis en berättelse som än en gång bevisar att han är en av de skarpaste och mest underhållande skildrarna av vår tid. MICHAEL LEWIS är den storsäljande författaren till The Big Short, The Blind Side, Liars Poker och Flash Boys. 2015 kom filmversionen av The Big Short - med Brad Pitt och Christian Bale i två av rollerna - som gjort stor succé på bio och vunnit en rad priser, bland annat en Oscar i kategorin Bästa manus efter förlaga. Michael Lewis bor i Berkeley i Kalifornien med hustru och tre barn.

Bästsäljaren bakom den Oscarsbelönade filmen!» Ingen skriver bättre om siffror och pengar än Michael Lewis.« | JAN GRADVALL, DI»Jag läser Lewis av samma skäl som jag tittar på Tiger Woods. Jag kommer aldrig att spela på samma nivå, men det är bra att bli påmind då och då om hur genialitet ser ut.« | MALCOLM GLADWELL, NY TIMES BOOK REVIEWNär finanskraschen på den amerikanska aktiemarknaden blev allmänt känd 2008 hade den egentligen redan pågått ett bra tag i det dolda. Den verkliga historien började nämligen på bisarra marknader, dit solljuset inte nådde och där tillsynsmyndigheterna inte ville befinna sig. Marknader där skygga genier och särlingar överlistade hela finansmarknaden och tjänade enorma summor på amerikaner som inte kunde betala sina skulder. De insiktsfulla personer som förstod vad som hände, eller kanske hände, var paralyserade av hopp och rädsla. Hur som helst sa de ingenting. Michael Lewis skriver en uppslukande, karaktärsdriven berättelse, full av indignation och svart humor. Utifrån en handfull osannolika, verkligt osannolika hjältar, skapar Lewis en berättelse som än en gång bevisar att han är en av de skarpaste och mest underhållande skildrarna av vår tid. MICHAEL LEWIS är den storsäljande författaren till The Big Short, The Blind Side, Liars Poker och Flash Boys. 2015 kom filmversionen av The Big Short - med Brad Pitt och Christian Bale i två av rollerna - som gjort stor succé på bio och vunnit en rad priser, bland annat en Oscar i kategorin Bästa manus efter förlaga. Michael Lewis bor i Berkeley i Kalifornien med hustru och tre barn.

Before there was Flash Boys and The Big Short, there was Liar's Poker. A knowing and unnervingly talented debut, this insider's account of 1980s Wall Street excess transformed Michael Lewis from a disillusioned bond salesman to the best-selling literary icon he is today. Together, the three books cover thirty years of endemic global corruption--perhaps the defining problem of our age--which has never been so hilariously skewered as in Liar's Poker, now in a twenty-fifth-anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author. It was wonderful to be young and working on Wall Street in the 1980s: never before had so many twenty-four-year-olds made so much money in so little time. After you learned the trick of it, all you had to do was pick up the phone and the money poured in your lap. This wickedly funny book endures as the best record we have of those heady, frenzied years. In it Lewis describes his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful bonds with just one call. As he has continued to do for a quarter century, Michael Lewis here shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. In the Salomon training program a roomful of aspirants is stunned speechless by the vitriolic profanity of the Human Piranha; out on the trading floor, bond traders throw telephones at the heads of underlings and Salomon chairmen Gutfreund challenges his chief trader to a hand of liar's poker for one million dollars.

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis's life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do." The coach's message was not simply about winning, but about self-respect, sacrifice, courage, and endurance. In some ways, and even now, years later, Lewis still finds himself trying to measure up to what Coach Fitz expected of him.

Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street s premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. Liar s Poker is the culmination of those heady, frenzied years a behind-the-scenes look at a unique and turbulent time in American business. From the frat-boy camaraderie of the forty-first-floor trading room to the killer instinct that made ambitious young men gamble everything on a high-stakes game of bluffing and deception, here is Michael Lewis s knowing and hilarious insider s account of an unprecedented era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune."

*THE OUTRAGEOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER*The classic Michael Lewis book that defined an era of greed, gluttony, and outrageous fortune in London and New York, by the author of The Big Short and Going Infinite. What readers are saying about Liar's Poker:'Still has relevance today' ?????'Probably Michael Lewis's best work'?????'A great insider's look at the most important firm on Wall Street during the 1980's' ?????'An absolute classic' ?????__________The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar's Poker. Michael Lewis was fresh out of Princeton and the London School of Economics when he landed a job at Salomon Brothers, one of Wall Street's premier investment firms. During the next three years, Lewis rose from callow trainee to bond salesman, raking in millions for the firm and cashing in on a modern-day gold rush. From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis's pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-80s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. Funny, frightening, breathless and heartless, Liar's Poker is the original story of hysterical greed and excessive ambition, one that is now more potent and enthralling than ever.__________'If you thought Gordon Gekko of the Wall Street movie was an implausibly corrupt piece of fiction, see how you like the real thing. This rip-the-lid-off account of the bond-dealing brouhaha is the work of a real-life bond salesman.' The Sunday Times'So memorable and alive . . . one of those rare works that encapsulate and define an era.' Fortune'The funniest book on Wall Street I've ever read.' Tom Wolfe'Wickedly funny' Daily Express'Hilarious' New York Times

A wild ride through the destruction of the American government - and the unsung heroes who tried to stop it - by the No. 1 bestselling author of The Big Short In early 2025, an army of young men invaded the offices of US government. Armed with laptops and sleeping bags, a raft of prejudices and a bulletproof sense of mission instilled in them by their new boss, Elon Musk, the tech bro acolytes of DOGE were on a mission to seek and destroy, by any means necessary. But once inside, they came up against a group of people whose courage, commitment and in some cases lifelong devotion to the nation they served would quickly earn them the wrath of Musk. He called them Blockers. Find the Blockers, Musk told his band of worshipful young men – and eliminate them. Blockers is the story of the unsung heroes at the heart of the most complex and powerful machine ever designed by humankind, who fought back when DOGE, and then even darker forces, wanted to smash it all up. One kept Americans’ most sensitive tax data out of the wrong hands, another made sure that politicians and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop wildfires from destroying suburban neighbourhoods, another delivered the cure to cystic fibrosis. There was also a security guard. This is a thriller about unlikely rebels and power-drunk villains. It is also a cautionary tale that asks, what do we do when the idea of public service becomes worthless? When the things we didn’t even realise we were taking for granted suddenly no longer exist. When we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone.

The Bayeux Tapestry is a unique historical artwork almost 70 metres long, which tells the story of the events leading to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 by William, Duke of Normandy. Its account of the eleventh century in England and France is like no other, revealing details from civil and military architecture to armour, seafaring and everyday life. Featuring a full-colour reproduction of the Tapestry, this beautiful new book allows the reader to follow the narrative visually, while texts from international experts unpick the importance of the work in understanding this pivotal point in European history. The latest research into the Tapestry is presented across five chapters that explore its patronage, design and production, its status as an iconic work of art, and its depictions of daily life. Focused profiles woven throughout introduce key figures from the world of the Tapestry, offering moments of personal connection within the sweeping story. This publication marks the historic moment of the loan of the Tapestry to the British Museum, the first time it has been displayed outside of France in almost 1,000 years.

THE UNPUTDOWNABLE TRUE STORY OF THE EARLY YEARS OF SILICON VALLEY: A MUST-READ FOR FANS OF ZERO TO ONE 'Hugely enjoyable . . . it reads like a novel, a fantasy tale of rags and riches that happens to be true.' - Sunday Times 'A fascinating journey into the Wild West of American capitalism.' - Daily Telegraph As the millennium drew to a close, Michael Lewis set out to find the world's most influential technology entrepreneur - the person who would most embody the spirit of the coming age. His search led him to Jim Clark, the billionaire who founded Netscape and Silicon Graphics. In The New New Thing, Lewis accompanies Clark on the maiden voyage of his superyacht and, on the sometimes hazardous journey, takes the reader on the ride of a lifetime through a landscape of geeks and billionaires. This is the lively and hilarious inside story of Silicon Valley's super-rich and the history of the internet revolution.

ASTONISHING TRUE STORIES OF GREED AND AMBITION ON 1980S WALL STREET: A PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF THE WOLF OF WALL STREET AND BBC'S INDUSTRY The 1980s was the most turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of '29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and later an investment banker and financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fuelled that decade. In The Money Culture we meet the movers and shakers who commanded the headlines and rewrote the rules. This is a gripping account of the biggest names and moments in one of the most outrageous decades in Wall Street's history.

THE ENTHRALLING TRUE STORY OF THE US-JAPANESE FINANCIAL CLASH - FROM THE GLOBAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT, LIAR'S POKER AND FAST BOYS 'In the hands of Michael Lewis, anything is possible.' - Sunday Times In Pacific Rift, Michael Lewis follows the fortunes of two cultural transplants: Bob Collins, a forthright American insurance executive who lives and works in Tokyo, and Shuji Tomikawa, a Harvard-educated Japanese man working for Mitsui Real Estate in New York City. Through these men, Lewis sheds fascinating light on business practices on either side of the Pacific, from the Ginza bars of Tokyo to the wino gangs of Times Square. Written with Lewis's trademark wit and insight, this is a vivid portait of economic rivalry, cultural exchange and a new global order.

The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. And it’s made up of people, mostly unrecognized and uncelebrated, doing work that can be deeply consequential and beneficial to everyone. Michael Lewis invited his favorite writers, including Casey Cep, Dave Eggers, John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks, Sarah Vowell, and W. Kamau Bell, to join him in finding someone doing an interesting job for the government and writing about them. The stories they found are unexpected, riveting, and inspiring, including a former coal miner devoted to making mine roofs less likely to collapse, saving thousands of lives; an IRS agent straight out of a crime thriller; and the manager who made the National Cemetery Administration the best-run organization, public or private, in the entire country. Each essay shines a spotlight on the essential behind-the-scenes work of exemplary federal employees. Whether they’re digitizing archives, chasing down cybercriminals, or discovering new planets, these public servants are committed to their work and universally reluctant to take credit. Expanding on the Washington Post series, the vivid profiles in Who Is Government? blow up the stereotype of the irrelevant bureaucrat. They show how the essential business of government makes our lives possible, and how much it matters.

Originally published in 1959, this volume covers the history of the Service which has been through the centuries the first, and often the last line of British defence, and the spearhead of Britian’s imperial expansion. In the book Professor Lewis puts the Royal Navy into its true perspective in history in general and maritime history in particular. He shows its origin in the Crown’s personal sea-force, still blended with, and largely reliant upon the United Kingdom’s total sea-force; and relates how it emerged as the principal fighting element in her sea-strength; principal, but not sole fighting element, because the reserves of the Royal Navy are an integral part of the entire Navy.