New York: W. W. Norton, 2018. SIGNED by the AUTHOR with his usual scribbled signature only -- NOT personalized to anyone. Gold "SIGNED COPY" seal on the front. New condition in a bright and shiny New dust jacket. Near PERFECT condition with only a tiny bit of very mild shelfwear (like you sometimes find in any new book store). Inadvertent crease to a corner of the jacket's rear turn-in flap. NOT price clipped ($26.95). Square and tight. Sharp corners. Pages are crisp, clean and unmarked. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. We have only this one copy, but it is available now and ready to ship today from Henderson, Nevada. 2018. First printing with "First Edition" so stated and complete number row (1234567890) on the copyright page. Bound in the original black boards with silver-stamped spine. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? '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. The Commerce Department may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it� s not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before terrorists do. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gains without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing those costs. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it� s better never to really understand those problems. There is upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. If there are dangerous fools in this book, there are also heroes, unsung, of course. They are the linchpins of the system-those public servants whose knowledge, dedication, and proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.". SIGNED by the AUTHOR (his signature only). First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 8vo. (ii), 221pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Title

The Fifth Risk (signed)

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W. W. Norton, New York

Publication Date

2018

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Hardcover

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NOT a library discard

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First Printing of the First Edition.

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New condition

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New dust jacket

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Signed by Author(s)

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