Books Details
Author : Michael Lewis Pages : pages Publisher : Audible Studios Language
: eng ISBN-10 : B07GNTDQJQ ISBN-13 :
Books Descriptions
What are the consequences if the people given control over our
government have no idea how it works? "The election happened,"
remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the
Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all
departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few
and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed
about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the
briefing books that had been prepared for them.Michael Lewis?s brilliant
narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by
its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food
stamps and school lunches is being slashed. The Commerce Department
may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at
Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it?s not clear there
will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before
terrorists
