Vanity Fair is carrying an excerpt of The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis, to be published this month by W. W. Norton; © 2010.
Posts Tagged ‘Vanity Fair’
Betting on the Blind Side
Monday, March 8th, 2010The Man Who Crashed The World
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009August, 2009 Vanity Fair article investigating the implosion of A.I.G., Michael Lewis explains how one of the world’s safest insurers became a reckless juggernaut—and a national target.
Commie Ball
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Vanity Fair (July 2008)
Some of the greatest baseball players the world has never seen are in Cuba, where their talent is government property, and their only chance of turning pro is the risky boat ride to Florida. Gus Dominguez, an L.A. sports agent, has done more than anyone to help escaped players join major-league U.S. teams, but now he sits in a California jail, convicted of smuggling athletes. The author flies to Havana for an unprecedented scouting of the island’s stars as he reports on the twisted dynamics behind the Dominguez case.
via Commie Ball: A Journey to the End of a Revolution – Vanity Fair