The Fifth Risk

Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His books include the best-sellers Liar’s Poker (1989), The Blind Side (2006), The Big Short (2010), and Flash Boys (2014).

Lewis was born in New Orleans and educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics. He began his career as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers in New York City before moving to London to work as a senior investment banker at Deutsche Bank. He then wrote a column for The New York Times and was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair.

Lewis’s books have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold more than three million copies worldwide. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.

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The Fifth Risk explores the consequences of the Trump administration’s approach to governing. In particular, the book focuses on the Trump administration’s disregard for expertise and its willingness to politicize government agencies. The book argues that this approach has led to a number of significant risks, including the risks of climate change, nuclear war, and economic recession. The book also argues that the Trump administration’s approach to governing has made it difficult for the government to effectively respond to these risks.

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