Author Michael Lewis. His most recent book is the undoing project a friendship that changed our minds. This is booktv live coverage. Can you hear me . I am hearing echoes. All good . We found out michael is supposed to do a power point presentation, takes half an hour to find the power point presentation. Thank you for being here and the library of congress. Thank you, the chairman of the festival. We will have a little chat, a couple of old friends with 1 million other new acquaintances in the hall. We go way back. Lets Start Talking about you are an art history major at princeton and you go to wall street and do really well. You could have been rich, you know . You could have your own plane this morning. Instead you go into the book business. So you know, it is just an accident, they didnt know each other. This is an opportunity to express all the resentment. This is the undoing project. So the question is why i quit wall street, you knew you wanted i didnt have any plans. And grew u
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