homeless Black teenager, is the basis of The Blind Side. Based on Michael Lewiss 2006 nonfiction book of the same name, the movie came out in the fall of 2009, less than a year into Barack Obamas first term as president, and audiences largely embraced it as a parable of hope and racial harmony.
DUCED to the wider world by one of Americas foremost nonfiction authors. Michael Lewiss books tend to be about big systems and money Moneyball, The Big Short and Going Infinite, for example and he tells his stories through characters who are iconoclastic, even heroic. They see into the f