The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story. by Lewis, Michael - 2000

New York: W.W. Norton, 2000. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. In the weird glow of the dying millennium, Michael Lewis set out on a safari through Silicon Valley to find the world's most important technology entrepreneur. He found this in Jim Clark, a man whose achievements include the founding of three separate billion-dollar companies. Lewis also found much more, and the result-the best-selling book The New New Thing-is an ingeniously conceived history of the Internet revolution. "A superb book. . . . [Lewis] makes Silicon Valley as thrilling and intelligible as he made Wall Street in his best-selling Liar's Poker" (Time).