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Presents a narrative account of the post-2016 election chaos that took over Washington to reveal how a small number of uninformed Trump appointees are triggering devastating world consequences.

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ISBN-13:	9781432861841
Publisher:	Gale, A Cengage Company
Publication date:	03/13/2019
Edition description:	Large Print
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

Date of Birth:

October 15, 1960

Place of Birth:

New Orleans, LA

Education:

Princeton University, B.A. in Art History, 1982; London School of Economics, 1985

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"Lewis has written a countercultural, almost subversive, book: one that praises the intellectual curiosity, dedication, foresight and sense of mission he finds among America’s federal workers."

Carlos Lozada

"Fascinating—and at times harrowing…Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear."

NPR - Brian Naylor

"[A] page turner.… [Lewis'] most ambitious and important book."

New York Times Book Review

"[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government."

Quartz

"A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about."

Boing Boing - Cory Doctorow

"Fascinating—and at times harrowing…. Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear."

NPR

"[The Fifth Risk is] so prescient it’s goosepimpling."

New York Times - Jennifer Senior

"[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government."

USA Today - Don Oldenburg

For those who are are still shocked by the results of the 2016 election, the author, who loves to dig deeply into the crevices of current events, has more anxiety in store in this audiobook. Narrator Victor Bevine has a low, restrained voice that underlines Lewis’s sense of foreboding. The main point is that almost immediately after being sworn in as president, Donald Trump began appointing people to government posts who had no interest in running a government. The result is the dysfunction we are presently experiencing. Bevine narrates deliberately but varies his tone to keep the audiobook interesting, and he’s easy to follow through some of the more dense passages. He also pauses effectively to allow us to consider the meaning of the author’s words. R.I.G. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2018 - AudioFile

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