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The numerous exposés on the current president have almost entirely neglected the lower-level appointees currently burrowing into the agencies of the federal government. Who better than the author of Moneyball and The Big Short to chronicle the exploitation of weaknesses in our system? Recommended By Keith M., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative of the Trump administration's botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works.
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“[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.” USA Today
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“A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about.”
Cory Doctorow
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“Fascinating ― and at times harrowing…Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear.” NPR
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“Lewis has written a countercultural, almost subversive, book: one that praises the intellectual curiosity, dedication, foresight and sense of mission he finds among America’s federal workers.” Washington Post
About the Author
Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, and The Undoing Project. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.