The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Language: English
Published by Allen Lane, 2018
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New ZealandBook Haven
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The election happened, remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. And then there was radio silence. Across all departments, similar stories were playing out Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. Commerce may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. DJ. 224 pages.
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- Title
- The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
- Author
- Michael Lewis
- Publisher
- Allen Lane
- Publication year
- 2018
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241380677
- ISBN 13
- 9780241380673
- Item weight
- 600 grams
- Seller catalogs
- General
People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.
And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.
In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
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