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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)     Subjects     Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.     Government executives -- United States.     Public administration -- United States.     Civil service -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-     Browse Catalog     by author:      Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)       by title:      The fifth risk / Mic...       by call number:      LP 320.973 L675f     Search the Web     Lewis, Michael (Michael M.)     Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.     Government executives -- United States.     Public administration -- United States.     Civil service -- United States.     United States -- Politics and government -- 2017-       MARC Display

The fifth risk / Michael Lewis. by Lewis, Michael (Michael M.) Thorndike Press, 2019. Call #: LP 320.973 L675f Subjects Administrative agencies -- United States -- Management.   Government executives -- United States.   Public administration -- United States.   Civil service -- United States.   United States -- Politics and government -- 2017- ISBN:  9781432861841(large print hc.) Alternate title:  5th risk Edition:  Large print ed. Description:  279 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. Summary:  "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. Willful ignorance plays a role in these looming disasters. If your ambition is to maximize short-term gain without regard to the long-term cost, you are better off not knowing the cost. If you want to preserve your personal immunity to the hard problems, it's better never to really understand those problems. There is an upside to ignorance, and downside to knowledge. Knowledge makes life messier. It makes it a bit more difficult for a person who wishes to shrink the world to a worldview. 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 proactivity keep the machinery running. Michael Lewis finds them, and he asks them what keeps them up at night."--Dust jacket. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 320.973 L675f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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