The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
Autor Michael Lewisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 dec 2019
'Life is what happens between Michael Lewis books. I forgot to breathe while readingThe Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann,TLS, Books of the Year
The phenomenal new book from the international bestselling author ofThe Big Short
'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.
People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.
And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.
InThe Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141991429
ISBN-10: 0141991429
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141991429
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Michael
Lewis's
global
bestselling
books
lift
the
lid
on
the
biggest
stories
of
our
times.
They
includeFlash
Boys,
a
game-changing
exposé
of
high-speed
scamming;The
Big
Short,
which
was
made
into
a
hit
Oscar-winning
film;Moneyball,
the
story
of
a
maverick
outsider
who
beat
the
system;
andLiar's
Poker,
the
book
that
defined
the
excesses
of
the
1980s.
Michael
Lewis
was
born
in
New
Orleans
and
educated
at
Princeton
University
and
the
London
School
of
Economics.
Recenzii
Stranger
and
more
terrifying
than
fiction
...
The
characters
are
riveting,
and
the
drama
intense.
It's
a
story
so
jaw-dropping
that
at
times
it's
hard
to
believe
it
was
not
invented
for
film
...
It
paints
a
picture
of
America
being
not
just
pulled
apart
at
the
political
seams,
but
in
the
very
fabric
of
the
government
itself.
A page turner ... Lewis's most ambitious and important book.
Who will fight for the censuses of this world? Who will defend the research grants, food-voucher programmes and risk management projects that quietly sustain a healthy nation? Step forward Michael Lewis. ... The result is a civics lesson worth taking ... Stunning. His message is powerful ... reminds us why good institutions matter, why skilled public servants are critical and what our government is actually for.
Jaw-dropping ... genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
Michael Lewis has a gift for identifying seemingly inaccessible subjects and spinning them into epic stories with Hollywood appeal.
Lewis's remarkable books tend to tell the stories of underdogs, heroically independent-minded people who zag when the world zigs.
Risk has been the central theme of Lewis's highly successful career. ... The fifth risk is something impossible to conceive of in advance, or to prepare for directly. What matters is having a well-organised government in place to respond to these contingencies when they hit - exactly what the Trump administration has failed to do.
Given that we now seem to be inhabiting a somewhat medieval world of plague and portent, I'd like to make the case for the prophetic powers of the US journalist Michael Lewis ... In December the notion [of the fifth risk] seemed wildly far-fetched. Four months on, it seems we will get the chance to find out if he was on the money.
The best part ofThe Fifth Riskis the evidence Lewis can add to the pile ... Lewis is a master of boiling down complexity into individual stories told by interesting characters.
Michael Lewis has a knack for making the complex appear simple. Here he uses the inner workings of the US Department of Energy to demonstrate how Trump is dismantling government.
A page turner ... Lewis's most ambitious and important book.
Who will fight for the censuses of this world? Who will defend the research grants, food-voucher programmes and risk management projects that quietly sustain a healthy nation? Step forward Michael Lewis. ... The result is a civics lesson worth taking ... Stunning. His message is powerful ... reminds us why good institutions matter, why skilled public servants are critical and what our government is actually for.
Jaw-dropping ... genuinely stopped me in my tracks.
Michael Lewis has a gift for identifying seemingly inaccessible subjects and spinning them into epic stories with Hollywood appeal.
Lewis's remarkable books tend to tell the stories of underdogs, heroically independent-minded people who zag when the world zigs.
Risk has been the central theme of Lewis's highly successful career. ... The fifth risk is something impossible to conceive of in advance, or to prepare for directly. What matters is having a well-organised government in place to respond to these contingencies when they hit - exactly what the Trump administration has failed to do.
Given that we now seem to be inhabiting a somewhat medieval world of plague and portent, I'd like to make the case for the prophetic powers of the US journalist Michael Lewis ... In December the notion [of the fifth risk] seemed wildly far-fetched. Four months on, it seems we will get the chance to find out if he was on the money.
The best part ofThe Fifth Riskis the evidence Lewis can add to the pile ... Lewis is a master of boiling down complexity into individual stories told by interesting characters.
Michael Lewis has a knack for making the complex appear simple. Here he uses the inner workings of the US Department of Energy to demonstrate how Trump is dismantling government.