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The Fifth Risk

Autor Michael Lewis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 dec 2019
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780393357455
ISBN-10: 0393357457
Pagini: 255
Dimensiuni: 141 x 208 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Norton & Company

Notă biografică

Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They includeFlash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming;The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film;Moneyball, the story of a maverick outsider who beat the system; andLiar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.

Recenzii

Stranger and more terrifying than fiction ... The characters are riveting, and the drama intense. It's a story so jaw-dropping that at times it's hard to believe it was not invented for film ... It paints a picture of America being not just pulled apart at the political seams, but in the very fabric of the government itself.
A page turner ... Lewis's most ambitious and important book.
Who will fight for the censuses of this world? Who will defend the research grants, food-voucher programmes and risk management projects that quietly sustain a healthy nation? Step forward Michael Lewis. ... The result is a civics lesson worth taking ... Stunning. His message is powerful ... reminds us why good institutions matter, why skilled public servants are critical and what our government is actually for.
Jaw-dropping ... genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
Michael Lewis has a gift for identifying seemingly inaccessible subjects and spinning them into epic stories with Hollywood appeal.
Lewis's remarkable books tend to tell the stories of underdogs, heroically independent-minded people who zag when the world zigs.
Risk has been the central theme of Lewis's highly successful career. ... The fifth risk is something impossible to conceive of in advance, or to prepare for directly. What matters is having a well-organised government in place to respond to these contingencies when they hit ­- exactly what the Trump administration has failed to do.
Given that we now seem to be inhabiting a somewhat medieval world of plague and portent, I'd like to make the case for the prophetic powers of the US journalist Michael Lewis ... In December the notion [of the fifth risk] seemed wildly far-fetched. Four months on, it seems we will get the chance to find out if he was on the money.
The best part ofThe Fifth Riskis the evidence Lewis can add to the pile ... Lewis is a master of boiling down complexity into individual stories told by interesting characters.
Michael Lewis has a knack for making the complex appear simple. Here he uses the inner workings of the US Department of Energy to demonstrate how Trump is dismantling government.

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New York Times Bestseller What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works?