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Homo profligus rides again

Lordie! Will we never hear the end of Edmund Andrews? This morning’s NY Times Book Review devotes over 13 (three-inch wide!) column inches to a meditation on the Times reporter’s $25.95 exposé of his own stupidity. To reviewer Tom Vanderbilt’s credit, he does point out some of the questionable aspects of Andrews’s story, though not until the end of his comments.

Edmunds, responding to the question of why he got himself into an impossible mortgage, says “I took a gamble.” Five grafs later we learn that he and his serially bankrupt wife left their spouses and “proudly risked everything to be together.”

Financial insolvency doesn’t seem to be the only kind of bankruptcy this pair suffers.

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  1. I thought I was done with this guy! You seem to be infected as well. The review must be having an effect: his Amazon sales # is now around 5000. How does that translate into # of books sold, I wonder.

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