Serendipitous Reader v2.0

I'm a big fan of Michael Lewis and had no idea what this book was about when I picked it up. It's a great read about how the Trump administration handled - or rather, didn't handle - the management transition of several key agencies within the government. The impact, and potential impact, of this administration's willful ignorance and just plain incompetence is appalling, and in some cases (like the Dept of Energy, which manages the U.S. nuclear arsenal and nuclear reactors) is absolutely terrifying.

A great read about the relationship between Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, who worked together for decades on the research that Kahneman wrote about in Thinking, Fast and Slow, and for which he won the Nobel Prize. Tversky died in 1996 so he didn't share the Nobel. 

Jefferson invited Hamilton and Madison to a private dinner in which they negotiated and agreed upon the Compromise of 1790: The national government would take over state debts, as Hamilton wanted, and the nation's capital would be in the South (Virginia, not Philadelphia), as Madison and Jefferson wanted. This should be fascinating, but instead, this book spends way too much time on the actual dinner - including recipes (I kid you not!!) - rather than the discussions of the dinner. I'll have to find a better version of this story.