![]() ![]() It’s a riveting story of life in Israel in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Then there’s the fearless, Israel-born paratrooper Tversky, who became a mathematical economist, his presence compared to Einstein. Start with Danny Kahneman’s life-and-death childhood journey through Nazi-occupied France, and later in Palestine as a student, combat tank commander, and prodigy psychologist. ![]() But while the biographical parts of The Undoing Project seem movie-ready, the academic studies maybe not so much. The author of The Blind Side, an MRI look inside the National Football League, and The Big Short, an expose of the subprime-mortgage collapse, he writes smart, inquisitive, high-tension books that seem easily turned into acclaimed films. High concepts and eye-opening storytelling are Lewis’ forte. The author further prepares readers with a rollicking chapter about Houston Rockets’ General Manager Daryl Morey and his game-changing, data-analyzing approach to drafting National Basketball Association talent. Little did he know when writing Moneyball that Kahneman and Tversky were the ones who corked the stats. That gamble changed Major League Baseball and led to Lewis tackling this heady prequel about everyday errant thinking. ![]() To ease readers into this mind-blowing, demanding narrative, Lewis first recaps Moneyball, his 2003 best seller about the Oakland A’s employing a data-crunching Harvard economist who defied conventional baseball wisdom and won. ![]()
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