4.25
challenging emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

This is a difficult book to read right now.  It is series of essays about great US Federal bureaucrats.  While you are reading this, you wonder "Do they and their co-workers still have jobs?"  All the essays are good but as always some are better then others. I got this because I really wanted hear Sarah Vowell's voice, again, it has been TOO long.  Her essay (about the National Archives) is great, but my favorite is Geraldine Brooks' "The Cyber Sleuth".  I loved hearing about IRS agents taking down the worst of the worst in cyber crime. Cool. 

I recommend this book, if you can handle the stress of not knowing it they still have their jobs.