Review: The money culture
Editorial Review - Kirkus ReviewsWith this collection of 30-odd pieces (all previously published in a haft-dozen magazine and newspapers), Lewis (Liar's Poker, 1989) stakes a further claim to being the wittiest critic of private enterprise since the pseudonymous ""Adam Smith"" was plying his merry trade during the go-go 1960's. Young, gifted, and glib, the author delivers a wealth of deliciously wicked profiles on contemporary Wall Streeters, their offshore counterparts, and other predatory notables whose status is dollar denominated. Among others, he dispatches nouveau-fiche Australians, Japan's kamikaze capitalists, TV-personality Louis Rukeyser (the nominal sponsor of seaborne investment seminars remarkable mainly for their ship-of-fools quality), the juvenile delinquents whose passion for speculating in financial futures has convulsed the Paris bourse, Donald Trump, LBO accessories, and other fast-trackers who show little care for socioeconomic consequences. Though largely informed by the serious purpose of capturing instances of greed, pretension, and wretched excess in the global financial village, Lewis's often antic reportage goes down with deceptive ease. A delightfully light touch is evident even in his assessment of such weighty subjects as what havoc a natural disaster (e.g., an earthquake) in Tokyo could wreak on the world's capital markets. Not every entry is a winner; there is, for example, an overlong and not very original exposÉ on the putatively upscale charge cards merchandised by American Express. On the whole, however, the compilation sets a very high standard and provides an evocative, if not precisely nostalgic, record of the recent past's megabuck madnesses.
Review: The Money Culture
User Review - Darryl Stangry - GoodreadsGood for Lewis fans, may be a bit drab for other readers. Didn't capture the 80's as much as Liar's Poker. Would put it behind 4-5 other Lewis books, but those set a high bar. Read full review
Review: The Money Culture
User Review - Sam - GoodreadsLike all good Michael Lewis, The Money Culture cultivates some of the best stories from a topsy-turvy age and unspools them delightfully for his readers. In The Money Culture, Lewis explores the scene ... Read full review
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User Review - Cameron - GoodreadsMichael Lewis is one of the best. He writes with such conviction and attacks the evils of Wall Street in the late 1980s-early 1990s in this book, which is a collection of his pieces published in that era. Read full review
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User Review - Jerry Peace - GoodreadsLewis' book reminds that one studies history not to avoid repeating but only to not be surprised by doing the same things again and again and again. Read full review
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User Review - Yosh Han - Goodreads"The same bittersweet scent that has driven American investors wild with desire for the past five years is now intoxicating the stock markets of Western Europe. Oe Brit in the City of London describes ... Read full review
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User Review - mike - GoodreadsIn this collection of magazine essays & newspaper opeds from the late 80s & early 90s, Michael Lewis displays the skills that rank him among the best modern-day cultural anthropologists. I'd guess ... Read full review
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User Review - Andrew - GoodreadsFairly scattered, somewhat dated batch of essays, but Lewis' writing shines throughout as always. Read full review
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User Review - Stephen Holiday - GoodreadsNothing wrong. Nothing terribly useful. Funny. Read full review
Review: The Money Culture
User Review - Doug - GoodreadsIn terms of big financial news, I guess there wasn't much that happened in the early 90s. This book was a good epilogue of the Barbarians at the Gate 80s and segway into the greed of the Dotcom boom ... Read full review
