Summary of Michael Lewis's Losers

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The race for the Republican nomination began in Manchester, New Hampshire. I visited the porn-video store Forbidden Fruit, and the headquarters of Phil Gramm, who was campaigning for president.
#2 The Gramm campaign has spent $20 million of other people’s money to persuade voters that he is more fiscally responsible than anyone else in the race. The main result has been to scare off serious contenders.
#3 Gramm was very pro-family, and he treated the Conways as if they were archetypes. He did not explain how he would balance the budget, except for a felonious diagram he used to show how much money the typical American family would save from the resulting decline in interest rates.
#4 The senator is charming enough, but he is no match for Clinton, who floats above the Republican primary like a hot-air balloon with a smiley face painted on its side. Gramm lacks the ability to seem interested in what others have to say.

Sujets

• Political opportunity
• Politics Magazine

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358329
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Michael Lewis's Losers
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The race for the Republican nomination began in Manchester, New Hampshire. I visited the porn-video store Forbidden Fruit, and the headquarters of Phil Gramm, who was campaigning for president.

#2

The Gramm campaign has spent $20 million of other people’s money to persuade voters that he is more fiscally responsible than anyone else in the race. The main result has been to scare off serious contenders.

#3

Gramm was very pro-family, and he treated the Conways as if they were archetypes. He did not explain how he would balance the budget, except for a felonious diagram he used to show how much money the typical American family would save from the resulting decline in interest rates.

#4

The senator is charming enough, but he is no match for Clinton, who floats above the Republican primary like a hot-air balloon with a smiley face painted on its side. Gramm lacks the ability to seem interested in what others have to say.

#5

Every candidate knows that ten thousand New Hampshire votes might be the difference between winning the White House and ending one’s days in obscurity. Every voter knows this, too. The state is prepared for this kind of election extortion, and it works.

#6

The New Hampshire Republican State Committee Dinner is a special day for the candidates. The Morry Taylor people have planted signs for their candidate in all the best places, but no one seems to know who Morry Taylor is.

#7

At the dinner, I was seated with the press, not the Buchanan supporters. The only thing more sensational than a black man at a New Hampshire Republican dinner was a black man among Buchanan supporters.

#8

During the primary, Keyes would often get angry and scream at people, and he was often the center of attention. He was known for his hatred of Native Americans, and he once even charged Buchanan with racism against them.

#9

During the ceremony, every candidate insulted and criticized Dole, except for Buchanan, who was typically popular. Morry Taylor, a candidate who until now had barely been heard of, spoke passionately about how America was going to be ruled by the sultan of Brunei.

#10

The United States has been shut down while the two sides haggle about a few billion dollars in the federal budget. The fate of the earth is not at stake, but political careers are.

#11

Buchanan has a hard time with children. He has no ability to enter into their world. He is famous for saying what he thinks, regardless of whom it offends. He has a hard time telling people what they want to hear.

#12

Buchanan’s campaign is a tour of American anger. He is extremely articulate and persuasive, and his message is simple: vote for me and the world will return to the way it was before American workers lost control of their country.

#13

The sum total of political commitment in that one room already is greater than anything in the entire Dole campaign. Buchanan begins by poking fun at a four-year-old boy in the front row who is yawning. He moves on to attack Bill Clinton, the Supreme Court, and Oliver Stone.

#14

I would meet with Pat Buchanan, and he would always explain that the American working class needs Pat because the only other person who even mentions their problems is a midget. Everyone nodded and approved of Buchanan.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Midwest is the straight man of the Western world. It is not that midwesterners lack a sense of humor; it’s just that they regard humor as second-rate behavior, the opposite of, rather than a complement to, seriousness.

#2

Morry Taylor, the Grizz, is the only candidate who is not interested in becoming president for more than four years. He is the most persuasive when he says he has no interest in being president at all.

#3

In Ames, Iowa, democracy is about to spring back to life. Morry Taylor, the presidential candidate, is about to teach the kids about money and politics.

#4

Morry is a unique candidate, as he is pro-choice, against sending troops to Bosnia, and in favor of turning the Pentagon into a hotel for visiting congressmen. He believes that CEOs of publicly held corporations should never be paid more than about twenty times the wages of their most menial workers.

#5

Morry Taylor, like every other presidential candidate, faces a television camera, or a microphone, or a crowd who has no idea who he is, and explains that he’s different from and better than the other eight guys running in this year’s Republican primary.

#6

I was meant to hear former Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander speak at a Republican county dinner in northwestern Iowa, but I decided at the last minute to go with Morry Taylor. I flew in one of Morry’s private planes.

#7

Morry's speech was met with thunderous applause and laughter. He began by criticizing Washington's stupidity, and continued by comparing it to his own political situation. He argued that abortion should not be outlawed, since it was a religious issue rather than a matter for the federal government.

#8

Morry was used to making sales, and he got the audience where he wanted them after his abortion remarks. He was too used to having people want more, and he was reluctant to leave them wanting more.

#9

I went over to Titan about an hour before the big debate, and found Morry still in his sweat-clothes with his feet up on his desk, scratching out his two-minute closing statement.