Summary

Chapter 17 chronicles Casey’s 2008 summer job at the New York City office of Lehman Brothers. Casey then recounts his 11th- and 12th-grade summer internships at the law firm of Vinson & Elkins, where various partners would ask him out to lunch so that Casey could regale their colleagues or wives with the story of his improbable success — from Oak Cliff to Yale. A few years later, one of these partners arranged for Casey’s 2007 summer internship at the Dallas office of Lehman Brothers. Casey secured a 2008 job at the New York City office in order to earn more money than he could in Dallas. Casey describes meeting former president George W. Bush, with whom he spoke briefly in a buffet line in Dallas. Bush asked Casey whether his father was around, and later, in an interview, related and embellished the encounter as evidence that...