‘Michael Lewis is, by a long way, the most important financial writer alive today’ Spectator

‘One of our most entertaining writers. The Money Culture rivals Liar’s Poker in giggle-inspiring quality’ New York Times

True stories of money turned to madness in the 1980s from the author of The Big Short and Liar’s Poker

The 1980s was the most turbulent era in the financial market since the crash of ‘29, not only on Wall Street but around the world. Michael Lewis, as a trainee at Salomon Brothers in New York and later an investment banker and financial journalist, was uniquely positioned to chronicle the ambition and folly that fuelled that decade.

In The Money Culture we meet the movers and shakers who commanded the headlines and rewrote the rules. This is a gripping account of the biggest names and moments in one of the most outrageous decades in Wall Street’s history.

About The Author

Michael Lewis is a former banker who worked at Salomon Brothers in the height of the Eighties boom. He writes regularly as a journalist and is the author of several books, including the international bestseller, Liar’s Poker.

Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He has written several books, including the international bestseller, Liar’s Poker, widely considered the book that defined Wall Street during the 1980s. Lewis is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and also writes for Vanity Fair and Portfolio magazine. He is married with three children.