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For instance, summarizing the New Growth Theory devised by Paul Romer in the 1980s, Lewis says that now "wealth came from the human imagination," and concludes that "the new theory conferred a stunning new status upon innovation."
On the upside, the book is a ripsnorting read, and Lewis "has a natural talent for spinning hilarious scenes and uncovering wicked details" (Steven Levy, Newsweek ). As Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times , "Lewis uses a sort of Tom Wolfe approach, enlivening his account of complicated financial deals and even more complicated engineering feats with snappy cameo portraits, exclamatory descriptions and lots of subjective judgments."
Of course, Lewis and Huxley had been telling us that all along."
By the time Lewis is through attacking everyone who exemplies this Sixties-ish phrase (Joyce Maynard, Paul Theroux, anyone who might have criticized JFK's sexual escapades during his administration), you wonder whether any speech about the sexual behavior of public figures is worth protecting.
Is Lewis doing this as a result of a lost bet, or has editor Kinsley got pictures of him naked from TNR days?
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