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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Signed By
- Michael Lewis
- Signed
- Yes
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Dust Jacket, Signed by author
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781324002642
- Book Title
- Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Business & Economics, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Affairs & Administration, Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), American Government / General, Commercial Policy, American Government / National
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 16.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
About this product
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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? "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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324002646
ISBN-13
9781324002642
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27038799081
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Public Affairs & Administration, Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), American Government / General, Commercial Policy, American Government / National
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Business & Economics, Political Science
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
16.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
E912.L48 2018
Reviews
Displaying his usual meticulous research and fluid prose, [Lewis] makes the federal bureaucracy come alive by focusing on a few individuals within each agency with fascinating--and sometimes heartwarming--backstories....[A] well-written primer on how the government serves citizens in underappreciated ways., A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about., Fascinating--and at times harrowing.... Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear., Fascinating -- and at times harrowing.... Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear., [A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans' safety happening now from inside the U.S. government.
Copyright Date
2018
Lccn
2018-038204
Dewey Decimal
320.973/090512
Dewey Edition
23
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