I've reviewed Michael Lewis's book Going Infinite, which just published today as Sam Bankman-Fried's trial kicks off. Ultimately, it's a story of the FTX collapse that never meaningfully changed from the hero story Lewis originally set out to write.
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/review-michael-lewiss-going-infinite
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If Sam Bankman-Fried is convicted in the upcoming FTX fraud trial, Lewis’s admiring biography will take an awkward place on the shelves of history.
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Wow this is *so* disappointing. I've read a lot of Michael Lewis' books and always thought he was smart and skeptical. Yikes. Putting it all on the line for SBF? Why?
Michael Lewis?
The "Liar's Poker" Michael Lewis?
That's the only book of his I've read, and that a very long time ago
huh...
(I don't read much non-fiction)
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He also wrote “The Blind Side” about a kid who was good at football and was “taken in” by a some wealthy friends of Lewis’s and signed a conservatorship when he thought he was agreeing to be adopted. Story got turned into a Sandra Bullock movie.
https://www.theroot.com/resurfaced-video-of-the-blind-side-author-joking-about-1850751809
I never read that one and I didn't actually know until your toot that Lewis wrote it. That is very disturbing. Because surely Lewis knew that.
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I’d heard of it but I’m not a football fan so hadn’t read it or seen the movie. I did however see the stories about Oher suing the family earlier this year and was frankly shocked to see that clip of Lewis.
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