The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

· W. W. Norton & Company
4.2
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The New York Times Bestseller, with a new afterword

"[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book." —Joe Klein, New York Times

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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4.2
68 reviews
Jaime Navarro
26 August 2019
It's amazing to think of how intertwined the government is in the lives of its citizens. Without agencies doing their work day in and day out, much of it behind the scenes, the citizens of this country would not be able to go about their daily lives. Although most people believe that the government is a big, bureaucratic mess, there is a need for the hard work performed by those individuals. We, as citizens, and government agencies need to find a happy medium as to the size, and more importantly, the role the government should have. This book was a definite eye opener, and sad to think how one administration could reverse decades of progress.
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Mike Uhrig
18 November 2019
Wow I cant believe that some people dont care about life and what they do to others! It is very sad and crazy that some people would just keep lying just to get what they want no matter how much the other is hurt and gave his everything to make them happy!! I hope everyone reads this story it hits me at home.
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A Google user
11 January 2019
A must read to underatand how important and critical are the services of our goverment, most of us are clueless and risk falling for the false narrative around our very unique American big gov. Don't fall for the comments re fake news, it is only fake news to those with fake brains. If not sure, get the sample first, and then buy the whole thing. Also, search for some online podcasts with the author, listen and decide. Thank you Mr Lewis for writing this book. Awesome book!
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About the author

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

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