The Fifth Risk
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis investigates the quiet civil servants managing our most complex, catastrophic national risks—from securing nuclear warheads to forecasting hurricanes—and what happens when government agencies are neglected.
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On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
by Timothy Snyder (2017)
About this book
Yale historian Timothy Snyder distills the crucial lessons of European resistance against Nazism, fascism, and communism into twenty urgent, practical principles for protecting democratic norms today.
Setting / LocationEurope & The United States
Story Era20th to 21st Century Political Crises
Protagonist / CoreThe Vigilant Citizen
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