A review by mezzosherri
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis

4.0

The book is at once a positive and a negative expose. On the positive side, Lewis’s reportage is a valuable reminder that a vast majority of the rank-and-file staff at federal agencies are public servants in the best sense of that term. The negative expose here is Lewis’s accounting of how ill-served these public servants are being by the current Presidential administration. Lewis tells of multiple agencies who prepared the material that are used to get a new presidential administration up to speed--only to have no one in Trump-land interested in taking the time to learn about this big complicated government they were going to be running.

The book is incredibly illuminating. And incredibly depressing.

Full review: https://anotherchange.net/2019/01/16/the-fifth-risk-by-michael-lewis/