Liar's Poker Condition:Good But what if we saw

But what if we saw the chaos—the “mess”—of our lives not as something to fear or eschew

It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense

A deadly secret

increases yields

personal work collects and makes sense of the phases of collapsing and rebuilding one's self on the treacherous modern path from teenager to adult

Liar's Poker Condition:Good But what if we sawIn this shrewd and wickedly funny book, Michael Lewis describes an astonishing era and his own rake's progress through a powerful investment bank. From an unlikely beginning (art history at Princeton?) he rose in two short years from Salomon Brothers trainee to Geek (the lowest form of life on the trading floor) to Big Swinging Dick, the most dangerous beast in the jungle, a bond salesman who could turn over millions of dollars' worth of doubtful