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Going Infinite

Disciplines:
biography
journalism
finance
cryptocurrency

Summary

Michael Lewis's 2023 account of Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX, drawn from extensive personal access to SBF before and during his fraud trial.

Core Contribution

Applies Lewis's characteristic access-journalism method to crypto's largest fraud, controversially presenting SBF as a genuinely alien mind rather than a conventional villain — generating intense debate about the limits of sympathetic narrative.

Historical Influences

Michael Lewis

Intellectual Lineage

Narrative Nonfiction Tradition Financial Exposé GenreAccess Journalism

Allied Works

The Big Short Flash Boys Bad Blood Billion Dollar WhaleEmpire of Pain

Contemporaries & Peers

Liar's Poker The Big Short Flash Boys Bad Blood Billion Dollar Loser

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

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