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The Fifth Risk - Michael Lewis
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In some ways this is the best book I’ve read so far about the Trump administration. It’s not that it has interesting anecdotes about naked corruption or about heated exchanges among colleagues within the West Wing. The strength of Michael Lewis as an author is that he tends to interview the nobodies that know where the people all the bodies are buried. In this instance they are the unsung heroes of government. This is one of the best books you’ll ever read about why a functional government matte
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This one was short, well-written, and generally compelling. It made for a quick, easy read, although it detours from its main point often. The book's theme is supposed to highlight the risks of an understaffed and uninformed Trump administration, and it does a decent job of it: describing how little interest Trump staffers put into learning about their organizations, etc. Lewis highlights the seriousness of this by exploring what certain agencies, such as DoE and NOAA, do and why their missions
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To know what effect a throughly underprepared and uninterested administration might have on the complexity that is the US government, one has to take a closer look at it. This book, while short, takes a passionate look inside three government agencies, the Department of Agriculture, Department of Energy and Department of Commerce, as well as several of its leading employees. Between various expeditions into weather prediction, nuclear waste management and rural development funding, a red line is
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Nov 28, 2018
Andre Masnari
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