The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story » (Reprint)

Financial journalist and bestselling author Michael Lewis is best known for intriguing nonfiction narratives like Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and Moneyball.

In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis sets out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur, the man who embodies the spirit of the coming age. He finds him in Jim Clark, who is about to create his third, separate, billion-dollar company: first Silicon Graphics, then Netscape-which launched the Information Age-and now Healtheon, a startup that may turn the $1 trillion healthcare industry on its head.

The New York Times Book Review - Kurt Andersen

A splendid, entirely satisfying book, intelligent and fun and revealing and troubling in the correct proportions, resolutely skeptical but not at all cynical, brimming with fabulous scenes as well as sharp analysis....[R]eads, for most of us, like fiction in the best sense, providing character revelation and narrative surprises all along the way....Lewis conveys with a rare combination of wisdom and glee both the thrill and absurdity of late-20th century business.

Preface
1. The Boat That Built Netscape
2. The Accelerated Grimace
3. The Pastin a Box
4. Disorganization Man
5. Inventing Jim Clark
6. The Boom and the Mast
7. Throwing Sand in Capitalists' Eyes
8. The Great Brain Quake of August 9, 1995
9. The Home of the Future?
10. God Mode
11. How Chickens Become Pork
12. New New Money
13. Cheese Sandwiches for Breakfast
14. Could Go Either Way
15. At Sea in the Home of the Future
16. Chasing Ghosts
17. The Turning Point
18. The New New Thing
19. The Past outside the Box
Epilogue
Acknowledgments