The Fifth Risk
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781324003199 |
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| Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 11/23/2018 |
| Edition description: | Signed Edition |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.00(d) |
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I never realized how much I didn’t know about our government and big data. Michael Lewis makes it fascinating!
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Great read!
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Easy to read. Insightful.
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I enjoyed reading the background on what did not happen in the Transition government. Much is explained in the selfish appointments to cabinet positions.
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Learned many things I didn't know about the U.S. government and structure.
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We++are+at+the+mercy+of+indifference%2C+if+not+plain+malice%2C+with+governmental++budget+cuts+by+an+uninformed+executive.
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The last half of the book just rambles
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Michael Lewis gives us a look inside some of the government agencies and impacts of the current administration on their functions. I gained a new appreciation for the staff of these agencies and their careers that are dedicated to making our government work well, in spite of the inadequacies or whims of the politicians and their appointees.
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I+learned+a+lot.+maybe+too+much.+perhaps+it+would+be+easier+to+stay+ignorant+like+trump
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Read+this+book+to+learn+a+lot+of+amazing+things+that+the+US+government+does+that+you+never+knew+about.+Read+this+book+so+that+you+will+scream+at+those+who+are+trying+to+dismantle+many+of+those+amazing+accomplishments+as+a+result+of+greed+and+self+aggrandizement.+Read+this+book+NOW+before+it%27s+too+late+to+make+things+right+again.+Your+life+may+depend+on+your+action+or+lack+of+it.
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The book started out great with some very interesting data on the lack of transition preparedness with the DT transition. The book also provided some fascinating information on the big data housed by various departments in the government. The book ended with a fizzle, an abrupt ending with a chapter that seemed as though it was part of a completely different book.
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Great, but too short.
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Fantastic read. Learned a lot about the government and I'm a federal retiree!
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Alas, I had high hopes for this book. It started out with descriptions of how DT deconstructed agencies by either slashing their budgets or putting those in charge who would gain financial rewards from the agencies. But it devolved into descriptions of several characters instead.
I was looking forward to more of an expose on DT and his crooked ways.
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As an independent voter and a big fan of Mr. Lewis' previous books, I had looked forward to reading this book.
Through the first 35 pages or so I was accepting of his premises.
Sadly, by about page 60, I began to feel that this brilliant writer had forgone his objectivity for ,what feels like his hatred of the current administration. His "discussion" of the "JPA" was incredibly short sided, leaving me with a feeling that he had a hidden agenda regarding the Trump administration, and was out of his comfort zone, and that I had to be guarded in accepting the rest of what he wrote in the book.
Like many other areas that he covered in this book, the issues involved are so much more complicated than the extent to which he covered them. I'm no fan of Fox, but where did he show examples of the sometimes outlandish commentary of other networks ?
I am not a political person, but I feel that I Mr. Lewis is naive about an area too large for a non insider to get their arms around, especially since his book is completely one sided in being critical of the current administration.
Every administration can be criticized for their shortcomings, but Mr. Lewis , it seems , has criticized the Trump administration and at the same time indirectly comparing it to the Obama administration.
Now that I know that he is willing to use his writing skills for political purposes , I doubt that I will read him again.
Fortunately, this is one of his shortest offerings...probably a result of his lack of any credible information.
So sad.
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