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There’s nobody Michael Lewis likes better than a hero who gives a defiant middle finger to the conventional wisdom: The short-seller who bets against a soaring mortgage market; the equities trader who insists that the stock exchange is “rigged.
And then there’s Mr Lewis himself, who has made his own name and fortune by writing against expectations, taking arcane subjects that most of his mega-readership might know next to nothing about and skilfully unfurling their intricacies in all of their dramatic glory. His last book, The Fifth Risk, was about the unsung heroes of the federal bureaucracy and how the Trump
