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9 min read The bestselling authorâs latest book follows scientific freethinkers who both predicted and managed the USâs Covid-19 crisis in the face of bureaucratic ineptitude Michael Lewis, author of bestselling books like Moneyball and The Big Short, often writes about freethinking mavericks who are up against some institutional status quo. The aforementioned books were about baseball and corporate finance. His new one, The Premonition: A Pandemic Story, is about the scientific freethinkers who both predicted and managed the USâs Covid-19 crisis in the face of bureaucratic ineptitude. Some have set Lewis up as a bit of a soothsayer. In a 2019 interview he suggested that only a pandemic would shock the American people into appreciating government again. âI was being asked what it would take to jar the culture in its relationship to its government,â he says. âWe allowed ourselves to get into this very odd relationship with the government ....