Maybe the best book I read last year was “Bad Blood,” about the epic sham of the biotech start-up Theranos and its delusional creator, Elizabeth Holmes. We were probably bound to elevate one to the highest office in the land. It sufficed to bring him his treasure and, for 72 years and counting, spare him his reckoning. In the Trump era and the Trump orbit, these ambassadors of a darker side of the American dream have come to the fore. She honed a phony voice, deeper than her real one.

Source: New York Times March 02, 2019 19:30 UTC