The New New Thing: How Some Man You’ve Never Heard of Just Changed Your Life
Author: Michael Lewis
New York Times Bestseller. “A superb book. . . . (Lewis) makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar’s Poker.”—Time, , In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world’s most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achie….Read More
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