About the Author

Michael Lewis is the best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, The Big Short, The Undoing Project, and The Fifth Risk. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his family.

Reviews

"[A] page turner.… [Lewis'] most ambitious and important book."
*New York Times Book Review*

"Fascinating—and at times harrowing…. Lewis tells an important and timely story, one that all of us who pay for, care about, and want government to work should hear."
*NPR*

"A hymn to the 'deep state,' which is revealed as nothing more than people who know what they're talking about."
*Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing*

"[A] spellbinding, alarming analysis of the most serious threats to Americans’ safety happening now from inside the U.S. government."
*Quartz*

"Displaying his usual meticulous research and fluid prose, [Lewis] makes the federal bureaucracy come alive by focusing on a few individuals within each agency with fascinating—and sometimes heartwarming—backstories.…[A] well-written primer on how the government serves citizens in underappreciated ways."
*Kirkus (starred review)*

"Illuminating.… It's relevance to readers won't end with the Trump era."
*Publishers Weekly*