SIGNED Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
by Lewis, Michael
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0393081818
- ISBN 13
- 9780393081817
- Seller
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Camarillo, California, United States
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About This Item
Signed, First Edition, Mint Condition/Collectible
Book appears to be untouched/unread. Spine and binding is tight.
Dust jacket is in mint condition and protected with Mylar.
Signed and dated by the author, Michael Lewis, on title page.
The tsunami of cheap credit that rolled across the planet between 2002 and 2008 was more than a simple financial phenomenon: it was temptation, offering entire societies the chance to reveal aspects of their characters they could not normally afford to indulge.
Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.
Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.
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- Bookseller
- Casa Pacifica (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154
- Title
- SIGNED Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
- Author
- Lewis, Michael
- Format/Binding
- As New
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0393081818
- ISBN 13
- 9780393081817
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011-10
- Pages
- 213
- Bookseller catalogs
- Non Fiction; Business; Money; Finance;
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- Spine
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