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Fifth Risk - Undoing Democracy The

Michael Lewis

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Government's unseen pivotal role, now alarmingly neglected.

"Fifth Risk" could be just what you need if you're fascinated by the complexities of governance and the critical, often invisible, ways it keeps our lives running smoothly. Michael Lewis has a knack for illuminating the obscure but vital aspects of public service, giving you an unnervingly close look at the consequences of political negligence. It's a compelling read for anyone concerned with current affairs and the health of democracy.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780241373545
Author: Michael Lewis
Publisher: ALLEN LANE UK
Date of Publication: 2018-01-01
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Politics, Science, History, Economics
Related Topics: Government, History, American History, Political Science, American History, Politics
Goodreads rating: 4.09
(rated by 44193 readers)

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The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.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.
 

Government's unseen pivotal role, now alarmingly neglected.

"Fifth Risk" could be just what you need if you're fascinated by the complexities of governance and the critical, often invisible, ways it keeps our lives running smoothly. Michael Lewis has a knack for illuminating the obscure but vital aspects of public service, giving you an unnervingly close look at the consequences of political negligence. It's a compelling read for anyone concerned with current affairs and the health of democracy.

  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Nominee for Current Interest (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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