The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy Audiobook (Free)

Penguin presents the audiobook release of The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis.

The morning after Trump was elected president, the individuals who ran the united states Division of Energy – an agency that handles some of the most powerful risks facing humanity – waited to welcome the incoming administration’s transition team. No one appeared. Over the US authorities, the same thing happened: nothing.

People don’t see when stuff goes right. That is the stuff federal government does. It manages anything that underpins our lives from funding free school meals, to policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme weather events. It methods in where personal investment worries to tread, innovates and creates knowledge, assesses severe long-term risk.

And now, authorities is under attack. By its own leaders.

In The Fifth Risk, Michael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and venality that is fuelling the destruction of a country’s fabric. All this, Lewis displays, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk of all. It is what you hardly ever learned that might have preserved you.