The Fifth Risk
Categories: Politics & Social Sciences
The Fifth Risk (2018) is Michael Lewis's look at the U.S. federal government during the transition to the Trump administration. He focuses on the Departments of Energy, Agriculture and Commerce, whose work on nuclear weapons, food safety, weather data and other services is little understood. He profiles the career officials who run these programs and describes what happens when an incoming administration ignores the risks they manage, above all the long-term ones that never make headlines.
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- Fareed Zakaria: “In journalism, Michael Lewis, who writes like an angel but also has a sharp, perceptive mind.”