MICHAEL LEWIS is the author of the bestsellers Liar's Poker, The New New Thing, and brilliant (The Specator), fascinating story and absorbing read (The Daily Telegraph), Moneyball (ISBN 978 0 393 32481 5).
"""It's not a jock book. It's not a sociology book. It's a storybook about modern society, ancient virtues, and the power of love, money and talent to do a little good."" -- Jay Hancock - Baltimore Sun ""The Blind Side is as insightful and moving a meditation on class inequality in America as I have ever read-although to put it that way, I realize, makes it sound deadly dull. It isn't."" -- Malcolm Gladwell ""Lewis's overview of the evolution of NFL strategy... is not only sound but shrewder than that of many so-called football insiders who can't see the forest for the trees."" -- Allen Barra - Washington Post ""[Lewis] is advancing a new genre of journalism."" -- George F. Will - New York Times Book Review ""The Blind Side works on three levels. First as a shrewd analysis of the NFL; second, as an expose of the insanity of big-time college football recruiting; and, third, as a moving portrait of the positive effect that love, family, and education can have in reversing the path of a life that was destined to be lived unhappily and, most likely, end badly."" -- Wes Lukowsky - Booklist ""Combining a tour de force of sports analysis with a piquant ethnography of the South's pigskin mania, Lewis probes the fascinating question of whether football is a matter of brute force or subtle intellect."" -- Publishers Weekly"