Please note: Included with The Fifth Risk is the entirety of The Coming Storm, the Audible Original story of two scientists who revolutionized climate predictions, bringing warning systems to previously unimaginable levels of accuracy. 3 â Michael Lewisâs cerebral, studied, insight that should alarm us all more than the above two, âThe Fifth Risk.â Of the three, I suspect âThe Fifth Riskâ will enjoy the shortest time on the bestseller list. the fifth risk by Michael Lewis ⧠RELEASE DATE: Oct. 2, 2018 Lewis ( The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds , 2016, etc.) from Princeton University and M.A. 36-39). Michael Lewis is an outstanding author and financial journalist who has a passion for economics and innovation.. He is the author of Moneyball. Michael Lewis uncovers the potential cost of putting a price tag on life-saving information. Michael Lewisâs brilliant narrative of the Trump administrationâs botched presidential transition takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its leaders through willful ignorance and greed. If youâre a regular listener, you know this show is not political in nature. âThe Fifth Risk PDF Summaryâ Now Available in Paperback with a New Afterword. Michael Lewisâs main motivation, however, is to convince readers that government workers would serve the public more effectively if Donald Trumpâs uninformed and shortsighted administration was replaced with a more informed and farsighted one. Kindle Edition. The Fifth Risk. Thereâs a scene in Michael Lewisâ book, The Fifth Risk, about President Donald Trumpâs takeover of the federal government that I canât forget.It takes place in the offices of the Department of Energy on November 9, 2016, the day after Trump unexpectedly beat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election. Lewis, Michael. The Fifth Risk (pp. BOTTOM LINE I got about halfway through the book when I realized its value exceeded âFire and Furyâ and, even, âFear.â Thus, I stopped reading long enough to order the Audible edition. The Fifth Risk can be thought of as a book to celebrate the dedicated government employees who labor in obscurity to make all of us safer. In The Fifth Risk, released this fall, he takes the reader on a whirlwind tour of the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, and State as their Obama-era appointees await transition teams from the newly elected Trump administration.Funny thing is, hardly anyone shows up or seems at all interested in ⦠from London School of Economics. Paraphrasing from Joe Klein's NYT review of "Fifth Risk," "..Lewis asks MacWilliams [ MacWilliams is John J. MacWilliams, a Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy. Prior to joining CGEP, MacWilliams served as Associate Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of ⦠About Michael Lewis. Bestselling author Michael Lewis wants to give you a new appreciation for government. turns timely political reporting he published in Vanity Fair into a book about federal government bureaucracies ⦠Michael Lewisâs âThe Fifth Riskâ looks like a book â it has hard covers, chapters, acknowledgments and the rest â but it reads like a love letter. W. W. Norton & Company. He obtained his B.A.