Undoing Project (Lewis) - Book Reviews

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[The Undoing Project,] which focuses on the enchanted collaboration between Dr. Kahneman and Amos Tversky, leaves a lovely afterimage. At its peak, the book combines intellectual rigor with complex portraiture. (Mr. Lewis keeps a number of single-haired paintbrushes on hand for when fine detail is required.) During its final pages, I was blinking back tears, hardly your typical reaction to a book about a pair of academic psychologists. The reason is simple. Mr. Lewis has written one hell of a love story.
Jennifer Senior - New York Times


Lewis is the ideal teller of [Tversky and Kahneman’s] story…. You see his protagonists in three dimensions―deeply likable, but also flawed, just like most of your friends and family.
David Leonhardt - New York Times Book Review


Brilliant.... Lewis has given us a spectacular account of two great men who faced up to uncertainty and the limits of human reason.
William Easterly - Wall Street Journal


Compelling… The Undoing Project is a history of the birth of behavioral economics, but it’s also Lewis’s testament to the power of collaboration.
Peter Coy - Bloomberg Businessweek


Intellectually mesmerizing and inspiring.
Harper's Bazaar


Mind-blowing…. [The Undoing Project] will raise doubts about how you personally perceive reality.
Don Oldenburg - USA Today


A fantastic read.
Jesse Singal - New York Magazine


Lewis deftly explores a timeless and fascinating subject—human decision-making.... [A] joy to read, packed with "aha!" moments, telling and at times hilarious details, and elegant explanations of complex experiments and theories.
Publishers Weekly


As always, Lewis’ writing style is engaging and mostly irresistible.... [A]fter Lewis eases into the main subjects, he ably captures their outsized personalities.... At times, [the] details about the unlikely coupling overwhelm the larger narrative, but that is a minor complaint in another solid book from this gifted author
Kirkus Reviews