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摘要

Early last year, around the time yahoo was worth twice what General Motors was, I threw a dinner party for the author Michael Lewis at our Forbes Silicon Valley digs. The New New Thing had just cracked the New York Times bestseller list. It was Michael's first smash hit since Liar's Poker in the 1980s. His best yet, I think. Michael had sketched a California phenomenon with perfect strokes, much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.