Ugly Americans

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<p>The true story of the Ivy League hedge fund cowboys who gambled with the dangerously high stakes of the Asian stock market.</p><p>John Malcolm, high school football hero and Princeton graduate made his millions back in the early '90s, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian stock markets, gambling at impossibly high stakes and winning. Failure meant not only bankruptcy and disgrace à la Nick Leeson, but potentially even death - at the hands of the Japanese Yakuza: one of the world's most notoriously violent organised crime syndicates.</p><p><i>Ugly Americans</i>tells Malcolm's story, and that of others like him, in a high octane book, filled with glamour, money and the dangers these incur, this true story is a cross between Mezrich's own best-selling<i>Bringing Down the House</i>and Michael Lewis'<i>Liar's Poker</i>.</p>

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Ben Mezrich is the<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of<i>The Accidental Billionaires</i>and<i>Bringing Down the House</i>in addition to many other books, both fiction and non-fiction. The major motion picture<i>21</i>, starring Kevin Spacey, was based on<i>Bringing Down the House</i>. The Oscar-winning film<i>The Social Network</i>was adapted from<i>The Accidental Billionaires.</i>Mezrich lives in Boston with his wife and son.

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