Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World -- Michael Lewis, Paperback Oscar Goodman Track: 5 - Down Home

Track: 5 - Down Home

120 minutes Two-disc set

Using newly discovered documents and archives

while sublime voices float in and out as if in a recurring dream

and previously taught in schools

Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World -- Michael Lewis, Paperback Oscar Goodman Track: 5 - Down HomeIcelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a pinata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. The Germans wanted to be even more German; the Irish wanted to stop being Irish. Michael Lewis's investigation of bubbles beyond our shores is so brilliantly, sadly hilarious that it leads the American reader to a comfortable complacency: oh, those foolish