Ode to Roger Lowenstein

Lowenstein is an incredibly talented writer who's constantly picking topics that I find terribly interesting. Is it just a coincidence? In the span of 1 month, I think I purchased 2 different books by him without realizing they were all by the same author.

Lowenstein is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who's written:

• Buffett: Making of an American Capitalist
  Arguably the best biography of Warren Buffett to date.


• When Genius Failed
  The story of Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund populated with Nobel-prize winning geniuses and academic elite... this fund almost brought our financial to its knees in 1998. [As an aside, my friend Jon is signed on to work with some former LTCM folks.]


• New York Times: The Quality Cure?
  An article discussing David Cutler's proposal for revamping the American healthcare system


• New York Times: A Question of Numbers
  Discussion on social security


• Origins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
  Well, as the title suggests, this book is about the very recent technology bubble.. bubble after bubble, every generation's got to have one. Lowenstein speaks with Forbes on his new book