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The fifth risk

Paperback • 2019 • English • 1. edition

The fifth risk: undoing democracy

By Michael Lewis

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About the book

The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy waited to brief the administration's transition team on the agency it would soon be running. Nobody appeared. Across all departments the stories were the same: Trump appointees were few and far between; those who did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative of the Trump administration's botched presidential transition takes us int...Show more

Political science and theory
Political structures: democracy

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ISBN

9780393357455

Publisher

W.W. Norton & Company

Published year

2019

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The fifth risk

Format

Paperback

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