{"product_id":"9780141991429","title":"The Fifth Risk : Undoing Democracy","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Lewis, Michael \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003ePolitical science \u0026amp; theory\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 16 November 2019 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e129 x 196 x 15 | 194g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Will set your hair on end' Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year'I forgot to breathe while reading The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann, TLS, Books of the YearThe bestselling, no-holds-barred exposé of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of our times  'The election happened ... And then there was radio silence.'The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emorning after Trump was elected president, the people who ran the US\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepartment of Energy - an agency that deals with some of the most\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epowerful risks facing humanity - waited to welcome the incoming\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eadministration's transition team. Nobody appeared. Across the US\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egovernment, the same thing happened: nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeople don't  notice  when stuff goes right. That is the stuff government does. It  manages  everything that underpins our lives from funding free school  meals, to  policing rogue nuclear activity, to predicting extreme  weather events.  It steps in where private investment fears to tread,  innovates and  creates knowledge, assesses extreme long-term risk. And now, government is under attack. By its own leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn The Fifth Risk,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Lewis reveals the combustible cocktail of wilful ignorance and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evenality that is fuelling the destruction of a country's fabric. All  of  this, Lewis shows, exposes America and the world to the biggest risk  of  all. It is what you never learned that might have saved you.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cobham Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55491490677122,"sku":"9780141991429","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/4567\/2367\/files\/9780141991429.jpg?v=1753748697","url":"https:\/\/www.cobhambooks.pro\/products\/9780141991429","provider":"Cobham Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}