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If there is going to be any meaningful sales, it's going to be through word of mouth and people recommending it to their book club and then a thousand more book clubs do it, and then you get into real sales numbers.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Any Book Club Clubs Get Going Meaningful More Mouth Numbers People Real Sales Then Thousand Through Word You

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A theme I'm obsessed with is the tension between human nature and the frameworks designed to curb the worst and promote the best of it.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Best Between Curb Designed Human Human Nature Nature Obsessed Promote Tension Theme Worst

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In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: About Bear Bond Book Compensation Explored First Ghosts Government Inside Manhattan Money Nature Predictable Regulations Scheme Setting Street Trader Wall Wall Street

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'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: About Access Crazier Day-To-Day Helped Me Means Out Political Politics Portrait Power Real Street Than Turned Wall Wall Street Which Who Write

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Washington isn't utterly dysfunctional.

~Douglas Brunt

Topics: Dysfunctional Utterly Washington

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On Wall Street, every story becomes known so quickly. They are all so connected that everything disseminates there faster than anywhere.

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Topics: Anywhere Becomes Connected Every Everything Faster Known Quickly Story Street Than Wall Wall Street

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Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average trader didn't have a sense of what was coming. The culture is so vacuous, it's possible to come to it straight out of college and never have a real adult life, even if you have the wife and kids.

~Douglas Brunt

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From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.

~Douglas Brunt

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With tennis, if you're very good at a young age, you don't even go to your prom. You're down at some tennis academy in Florida where you're on the court 8 hours a day. It's brutal.

~Douglas Brunt

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I did interviews with tennis greats, like James Blake and John Isner. I also interviewed tennis pros who aren't well - known but who made all the same sacrifices but had just a little spark of a professional career and are now still orbiting the sport, either as a teaching pro or a coach.

~Douglas Brunt

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 25th, 1971

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