Non-Fiction

kairos12

(13,247 posts) Sat Sep 21, 2024, 08:14 AM Sep 21

Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of

the Department of Energy (guardian of nukes) caused me to break out a second bottle of "Old Raj."

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Reading Micheal Lewis"The Fifth Element" of Chump's takeover of (Original Post) kairos12 Sep 21 OP

Good morning. Looks good. I found it as "The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy" on Amazon. txwhitedove Sep 21 #1

I found it requiring a change of pants kairos12 Sep 21 #2

And if they are ever in charge again the yorkster Sep 21 #3

Precisely. mahina Sep 21 #5

I loved the Fifth Risk. If we make a Michael Luis fan club, I am all in. mahina Sep 21 #4

txwhitedove

(4,010 posts)

1. Good morning. Looks good. I found it as "The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy" on Amazon.

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat Sep 21, 2024, 08:24 AM

Sep 21

...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 of our food and drugs and predicting extreme weather events to tracking and locating black market uranium before the terrorists do. The Fifth Risk masterfully and vividly unspools the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works.

kairos12

(13,247 posts)

2. I found it requiring a change of pants

Reply to txwhitedove (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 21, 2024, 08:26 AM

Sep 21

mid-read.

BTW have you read his book"The Premonition"

The most important book I read about the Pandemic and who the true heroes of that era are/were.

Most important book I read in 2023.