Luncheon with Michael Lewis
Mar 31 2010 11:30 am
Mar 31 2010 1:30 pm
Join Brazos Bookstore and the Asia Society at the Houston Club for a luncheon with bestselling author Michael Lewis, author of The Blind Side, to discuss his just-released book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, a character-rich and darkly humorous account of how the U.S. economy was driven over the cliff.
Who better than the author of the signature bestseller Liar’s Poker
to explain how the event we were told was impossible—the free fall of
the American economy—finally occurred; how the things that we wanted,
like ridiculously easy money and greatly expanded home ownership, were
vehicles for that crash; and how shareholder demand for profit forced
investment executives to eat the forbidden fruit of toxic derivatives.
Michael Lewis’s splendid cast of characters includes villains, a few
heroes, and a lot of people who look very, very foolish: high
government officials, including the watchdogs; heads of major
investment banks (some overlap here with previous category); perhaps
even the face in your mirror. In this trenchant, raucous, irresistible
narrative, Lewis writes of the goats and of the few who saw what the
emperor was wearing, and gives them, most memorably, what they deserve.
He proves yet again that he is the finest and funniest chronicler of
our times.
Tickets: $38.50 Individuals, $360 Table of 10
Reservations: 713-229-2215 or email sjones@houstonclub.org
PLEASE NOTE: Michael Lewis will sign only those books bought from Brazos Bookstore.
Location:
- Street:
- The Houston Club
- Additional:
- 811 Rusk Ave 10th Floor
- City:
- Houston ,
- Province:
- Texas
- Postal Code:
- 77002
- Country:
- United States
