The Fifth Risk
Undoing Democracy
by Michael Lewis
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Recommended by 8 notable people, including Alfred Lin and Tim O’Reilly
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Politics, Best Leadership Books, and Politics.
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 abou...
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Recommended by 8 sources and appears in Politics, Best Leadership Books, and Politics.
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