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What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? Stay tuned. "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. Commerce 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... Title 2 Contents 5 Prologue: Lost in Transition 7 I. Tail Risk 17 II. People Risk 45 III. All The President’s Data 72 Acknowledgments 128 Also by Michael Lewis 128 Copyright 130 NonFictions

Who reads The Fifth Risk?

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Language

EN

Category

politics

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.4 / 5 (15,095 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14