I'm a journalist and author. My next book is RETAIL GANGSTER: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie, which will be published by Hachette Books on August 23, 2022. My previous books were AYN RAND NATION: The Hidden Struggle for America's Soul (St. Martin's Press: Feb. 28, 2012), Wall Street Versus America (Portfolio: 2006) and Born to Steal (Warner Books: 2003). I was an investigative reporter at BusinessWeek for many years, and was a contributing editor at Condé Nast Portfolio and a columnist at Portfolio.com; I've written for the Daily Beast, Parade magazine, The New York Times, the Big Money, the Globe and Mail and other publications. I also was an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow me on Twitter: @gary_weiss.