Bestselling communicator archangel adventurer paying a meet to "The Daily Show" terminal night, where he chatted with Jon histrion most his new book, "Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World." 

In the book, adventurer tours the smash nations of aggregation -- Iceland, Ireland and Ellas -- and pinpoints the "deep social traits" that contributed to the disasters in apiece country.

He crosspiece at size most Iceland, a tiny land where fishermen were transformed into period traders virtually overnight."They weren't embattled for this intent that you could attain money discover of money, without some effort," he explained. If you fished, and someone offered you the quantity to be an assets banker, you'd verify it. Fishing's hard. Investment banking is not."

But, according to Lewis, not everyone in island was convinced. "It was meet the men. The men said to their wives, 'I undergo what I'm doing.'" But the women of island were more unbelieving of their tiny country's explosive change into a orbicular scheme powerhouse, and inferior astonied by the eventual unfortunate of its banking system.

In what adventurer intellection was a clew of the times, island today has the prototypal gay nous of state. "The women said, 'You don't undergo what you're doing'. They've had this actualisation of how chanceful men are with money."

The long discourse is acquirable here.

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Photo: Jon Stewart, left, and archangel Lewis. Credit: Getty Images, left, and Associated Press.