The fifth risk : undoing democracy /
by Lewis, Michael (Michael M.).
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BookPublisher: UK : Allen Lane, 2018Description: 219 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241373545 (hbk.) :; 0241373549 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 973.933 LEWSubject(s): History | History | United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-Summary: '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 narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders.
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| 973.932 RHO The world as it is : inside the Obama White House / | 973.933 HAR Collusion : | 973.933 KLA The despot's apprentice : | 973.933 LEW The fifth risk : undoing democracy / | 973.933 SOP A year at the circus / | 973.933 SPI The briefing : | 973.933 TRU Too much and never enough : how my family created the world's most dangerous man / |
Originally published: New York: W.W. Norton & Company.
'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 narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders.
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