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523. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

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Is Moneyball Worth a Book?

"I have to work myself up into a lather before I sit down to write," he says. "The biggest question is, is this worth a book? Like, is it urgent enough?" The author's office was burglarized three weeks after his piece on Iranian dissidents appeared in the New York Times Magazine.

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