Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World -- Michael Lewis

<br />Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish.<br /><br />Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish foreigners. But when he turns a merciless eye on California and Washington, DC, we see that the narrative is a trap baited with humor, and we understand the reckoning that awaits the greatest and greediest of debtor nations.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Michael Lewis<br><b>Publisher:</b> W. W. Norton & Company<br><b>Published:</b> 09/04/2012<br><b>Pages:</b> 240<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.43lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.26h x 5.56w x 0.58d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780393343441