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"[Michael Lewis’s] most ambitious and important book." ―Joe Klein, New York Times

Michael Lewis’s brilliant narrative of the Trump administration’s botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. The government manages a vast array of critical services that keep us safe and underpin our lives from ensuring the safety

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The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis Book Review

Name: limone
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ignorance is the greatest threat to our country
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 13, 2021
Review: Michael Lewis is one of my fav authors because I’m a huge fan of data-based decisions and stories about the many brilliant and dedicated heroes that save our lives that we rarely hear about because they don’t seek fame or fortune. This book is, honestly, terrifying. There are departments in the federal government that save our lives now and in the future that many people don’t know about. The department of Energy, for example, is responsible for preventing nuclear disaster - not just from an attack but from an accident or radioactive waste making its way into a waterway (did you know that there is a plant in Washington with deadly radioactive waste that has a bin failure of 68% and still no plan on how to prevent the waste from continuing its slow and steady course towards the Colombia River?). Did you know that in the 60’s a nuclear bomb accidentally fell out of a transport plane over NC and didn’t explode because 1 of the 4 safety devices installed on it held - safety devices studied and implemented by the Dept. of Energy. There are so many threats to the U.S. that require constant vigilance (e.g. keeping track of the movement of uranium) that are managed by departments that are NOT the department of defense. Imagine an unqualified leader being put in place (in 2016) who didn’t understand what these departments did and put people in charge who were unqualified and knew nothing about science/technology or, worse, people who had a financial interest in removing data generated by these departments so they could make money off of the information (like hedging against a climate disaster in TX). And imagine these people took the spots (or spots were left vacant) of civil servants who had dedicated their lives to understanding and creating the science that kept Americans alive unbeknownst to those Americans. Americans at large are reactors, not preventers, and the media adjusts accordingly (covering disasters and not all of the prevented disasters). Like, you might see award ceremonies given to brave coast guard rescuers, but you don’t see award ceremonies for Art Allen who created a computerized model of how to pinpoint the search areas based on multiple data points (saving thousands of lives). Prevention needs to be celebrated. Public servants don’t do it for glory, but they need to start being recognized to bring this awareness and recruit young brain power (our federal knowledge base is retiring).
EVERY president on DAY ONE or being elected sent a team into all federal agencies to learn as much as they could before inauguration (this required many hours, many documents, and many people). Except Trump of course. He sent noone nowhere. Eventually, a month in, he sent one or two unqualified loyalists to meet for one hour and only so the press wouldn’t report that he hadn’t sent anyone. Mounds of knowledge transfer (of CRITICAL agencies) went un-read, and mounds of data (especially about climate change or animal cruelty investigations) disappeared off of Federal websites.
Trump shut down the Federal Government for an entire month in order to get 3 billion for his border wall. In doing so, he created major risk that will last for YEARS because of the 1 month halt in vigilance, in order to address a non-existent threat that he had made real in the minds of his followers.
Many of the most dedicated civil servants are first generation Americans. They have come from places with non-functioning governments and appreciate in a keen way the way the U.S. government has allowed for them to climb the ladder to success, and they want to repay the favor.
People don’t realize all the ways the government helps them. The U.S. government funds risky research where the benefits are HUGE but no bank would take the risk. These research programs funded life-changing inventions like the internet or the Kevlar vest for the military. They are also essential going forward for surviving climate change. Yet, Trump’s initial budget cut out the programs entirely. There are entire states (ironically, red) that would not survive without small business loans. Many/all recipients do not even realize these loans are made possible by the Federal government because it appears their local bank is issuing them (the government needs to market themselves better!)
My take-away from this book is that the federal government needs to do a better job of marketing itself. it’s important that the general public knows what it does for them, so they understand the risk of voting for someone that doesn’t understand it or understands how he can undermine it to make money for himself or achieve short-term gain at the expense of our children. There are definitely areas for improvement in Federal Agencies (and the quest for improvement should always exist). The media (especially right wing media) is always going to cherry-pick the failures and not say anything about the other hundreds of ways the U.S. government saves people every day.
And then the question about what to do about propaganda news that is ruining our country. It gets people all hyped up about inconsequential things (e.g. critical race theory being taught in law schools) and not about about the REAL and VERY SCARY risks - risks that are being held back as best they can by a group of smart, experienced and dedicated civil servants that haven’t yet been defunded by the U.S. government.

Name: Ted Lehmann
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Government from the inside in the Time of Trump
Date: Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 28, 2019
Review: Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton, October 2018, 221 pg., $26.95, $10.58) shows in example after example how willfully ignorant Trump employees in Federal agencies were and are, as well as how much hard work and knowledgeability are required to do a good job within the federal bureaucracy. Lewis introduces the reader to a cast of dedicated professionals who provide necessary information and services to keep America running chosen from three million governments employs and with whom President Donald J. Trump has been at war since his inauguration.

Lewis is a story-teller who takes on interesting topics, spinning stories around them as his highly readable, informative narrative style draws the reader in, eventually capturing completely. He begins by showing us how unprepared and incurious the Trump minions were before introducing us to John MacWilliams, the first risk assessment officer of the Department of Energy. MacWilliams had prepared notebooks full of explanatory data and information about the job of DOE and the risks it oversaw, only to spend a few minutes with, of all people, the clueless Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas, who inhabits the position.

Throughout the vast and dedicated bureaucracy, government civil service employees, upon learning that Donald J. Trump had somehow been elected President, swung into action. They prepared voluminous briefing books to prepare members of the new administration to understand and continue doing the jobs that provided crucial information and services to the American people. They expected to be swarmed with these appointees the day after the election….And no one came! When a few new agency heads showed up, they demonstrated a remarkable lack of curiosity about what their jobs entailed. Eighty-nine year old Wilbur Ross thought the Department of Commerce was devoted to business and could never grasp the breadth of services and information it provided. Curiosity and skill were absent. And so information essential to meeting the needs of every day Americans, particulalarly in the rural areas that won the election for Mr. Trump, were hollowed out...neutered and made totally ineffective by a President not interested in governing.

The advantage of Lewis’ style of story-telling lies in his ability to take a general principle of which we’re all aware, in this case the two facts that Trump is sending unqualified hacks to lead the major divisions of the government and that the agencies are being hollowed out, denied money and qualified staff becomes real in his hand. We see directly through the eyes of dedicated employees the importance of many functions we’re not aware exist protect and inform, as well as how cutting off the top and denying funding hollow out the agencies, denying the recipients of their services essential protections and advice that agencies provide. By focusing on the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy, Lewis shows the breadth of their portfolio and the importance of the high quality people working for them. Replacing what Trump has so successfully destroyed, with the canny help of one of America’s most underrated disablers, Mick Mulvaney, will take a generation or more to rebuild once we rid ourselves of their depredations.

The replacement of food scientist Dr. Cathie Wotecki with right wing political hack and talk show host Sam Clovis represents another example of removing expertise from important, but often quietly effective low-profile specialists with political people seeking to achieve political goals. The achievements of Wotecki during her time with FDA at the Department of Agriculture were monumental, and life
saving. Clovis job was to shut down programs and eliminate the words “climate change” from government lexicon.

The role of government in rural America hidden, by being administered through small banks, brings expertise and money into places where neither exists, while being hidden by local interests and their antipathy to what they see as “the government.” Lillian Salerno eventually ran for Congress as a Democrat as she became increasingly aware of the Trump strategy of replacing professionals with political appointees who had no expertise or interest in the areas where her specialization had helped strengthen rural areas. Simply a small example of the larger problem. She lost!

Instead of re-visiting the depredations committed daily on the American people, the Tweeting, whining, self-promoting course of the Trump train wreck, Lewis takes the time to burrow into the inner workings of the crucial agencies and programs operated by the lower level political appointees and civil servants who make the wheels turn. Often, the recipients of government services don’t even know these services are sponsored and paid for by the government. Lewis shows how commitment, expertise, hard work, and dedication have built a system that actually delivers necessary services, improves the national health, protects the environment, and places needed checks on the damage often perpetrated by big money and large corporate interests. The results are a hollowing out of the inner workings of the government, hidden by bluster and mis-direction from the top. There’s no little irony in Lewis’s ending the book with the story of a tornado chaser, who has learned to follow behind storms to avoid being killed by the object of his studies.

Michael Lewis is the author of a series of best-selling books mostly having, at least superficially, to do with sports and/or business (Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, Blindside, The Big Short) which have all been best sellers as illuminating changing aspects of our culture through his wonderful storytelling. Originally from New Orleans, and educated at Princeton and The London School of Economics, Lewis’ is 58 years old, and with Fifth Risk at the top of his game.

In the beginning of Fith Risk by Michael Lewis (W.W. Norton, October 2018, 221 pg., $26.95, $10.58), Lewis chats at length with John Macwilliams, who has identified the five risks facing the government as the Trump administration sets and achieves its chaotic agenda. MacWilliams has identified four risks for Lewis, who finally asks him what the fifth risk is, to which MacWilliams responds, perhaps in a toneless, hopeless voice, “Project management.” This book is highly entertaining as well as “Must Reading!”