By Walter Isaacson | The Washington Post
Walter Isaacson, the CEO of the Aspen Institute, is the author of “The Innovators” and biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs.
Let me confess that my natural inclination, when asked to write an essay on Michael Lewis, was to dredge up some of the tales of his misbehavior as a kid and reveal what a miscreant he actually is.
Lewis and I went to the same school when we were growing up in New Orleans. I am a few years older, and when I became a journalist and book-writer in New York, I was occasionally brought back to Newman and trotted around like a pony in a paddock in one of those misguided efforts that schools undertake to inspire younger students. Michael was not inspired. Instead, as he later often told me, he was annoyed.
