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Michael Lewis' Favorite Books
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Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker, The New New Thing, Moneyball, The Blind Side, Panic, Home Game and The Big Short, among other works, lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their three children.
The bestselling author of Liar's Poker, The Blind Side, and, a new chronicle of the financial crisis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, shares his favorite books of all time.
Michael Lewis's Book Bag
A Confederacy of Dunces By John Kennedy Toole It describes the peculiar street life of the place I grew up (New Orleans) with the precision...
Hollywood's Christian Blockbuster
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Nicole LaPorte is a West Coast reporter for The Daily Beast. A former film reporter for Variety, she has also written for The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Observer, and W.
The Blind Side has tackled Hollywood, passing the $200 million mark this week. Nicole LaPorte examines the underground, faith-based force that's fueling the film's success.
Is Sandra Bullock's New Movie Racist?
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Thaddeus Russell is the author of the forthcoming A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010). He teaches history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Eugene Lang College, and the New School for Social Research.
The African-American teen character in the hit movie The Blind Side is loyal, polite, sexless, and surrounded by white people who love him-it's a miracle of the Obama age.
Sandra Bullock's Redemption?
Sandra Bullock's already floundering career took a turn for the (much) worse last summer with the flop All About Steve, leading some to wonder if her star had burnt out for good. Can The Blind Side...
Freestyle Fatherhood
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Taylor Antrim is a critic for The Daily Beast and the author of the novel The Headmaster Ritual.
Taylor Antrim speaks with Simon Carr about his moving memoir, The Boys Are Back, and how he improvised raising his two sons after his wife died.
I really like some of Matt Taibbi's articles on the financial meltdown and Michael Lewis', too. I thought David Brooks had a good column recently in The New York Times. Brooks was talking about how he was listening to an NPR radio show c...
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Academy Award winner Matt Damon has starred in films such as Good Will Hunting, which he co-wrote with Ben Affleck, The Good Shepherd, The Bourne and Oceans film series and the upcoming The Informant. He is also involved with a number of charities including the ONE Campaign, H20 Africa Foundation and Water.org.
10 Power Food Combos
How Obama Wins in 2012
As vice chairman of Public Strategies and president of Maverick Media, Mark McKinnon has helped meet strategic challenges for candidates, corporations and causes, including George W. Bush, John McCain, Governor Ann Richards, Charlie Wilson, Lance Armstrong, and Bono.
How Barack Beat Bibi
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is associate professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, will be published by HarperCollins in June. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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How Close Is It?
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Heroine of the Hour
Sean Wilentz is a history professor at Princeton University whose books include The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008. He is a contributing editor at The New Republic, and historian-in residence at Bob Dylan's official website.
