Ti farà venire i brividi' Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year 'Mi sono dimenticato di respirare mentre leggevo The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann, TLS, Books of the Year L'esposizione senza esclusione di colpi bestseller delle persone che stanno distruggendo la nostra democrazia, dal maestro narratore dei nostri tempi 'Ci sono state le elezioni. E poi c'è stato il silenzio radio.' La mattina dopo che Trump è stato eletto presidente, le persone che dirigevano il Dipartimento dell'Energia degli Stati Uniti, un'agenzia che si occupa di alcuni dei rischi più potenti che l'umanità deve affrontare, hanno atteso di accogliere il team di transizione dell'amministrazione entrante. Non si è presentato nessuno. In tutto il governo degli Stati Uniti è successa la stessa cosa: niente. Le persone non si accorgono quando le cose vanno per il verso giusto. Questo è ciò che fa il governo. Gestisce tutto ciò che sostiene le nostre vite, dal finanziamento dei pasti scolastici gratuiti, al controllo delle attività nucleari illegali, alla previsione di eventi meteorologici estremi. Interviene dove gli investimenti privati temono di mettere piede, innova e crea conoscenza, valuta i rischi estremi a lungo termine. E ora, il governo è sotto attacco. Dai suoi stessi leader. In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis rivela il cocktail infiammabile di ignoranza volontaria e venalità che sta alimentando la distruzione del tessuto di un paese. Tutto questo, mostra Lewis, espone l'America e il mondo al rischio più grande di tutti. È ciò che non hai mai imparato che avrebbe potuto salvarti.
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Michael Lewis's global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our times. They include Flash Boys, a game-changing exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a hit Oscar-winning film; Liar's Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; and, most recently, The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels. Michael Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
The morning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US Department of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most powerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming administration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US government, the same thing happened: nothing.
People don't notice when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It manages everything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It steps in where private investment fears to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk.
And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.
In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All of this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.
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