Economic Tales Make the Best-Sellers List

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LOS ANGELES - Growing up in New Orleans, writer Michael Lewis learned three lessons that stuck with him for life:

* Success and happiness are very different things.

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Economic Tales Make the Best-Sellers List

* Never become a lawyer.

* You don't need to come from a bookish environment to know how to spin a hell of a story.

Maybe the storytelling part, Lewis speculates, stems from another thing New Orleans taught him. With its Creole-Cajun culture and hedonistic ethos, the Crescent City schooled him to view his native country like a...

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