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REVIEWS: The Fifth Risk
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Book Companion
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. 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 pro-activity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds
them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night.
Characters: 90. Amazon rating: 4 1/2 stars. Genre: Non-Fiction.
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