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SUMMARY:Michael Lewis: Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings Series
DESCRIPTION:White Whale Bookstore is proud to be the official bookseller 
 of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Ten Evenings series. Buy Tickets here! An 
 inside look at the early days of Trump’s Department of Government Effici
 ency\, as told by the public servants it targeted and one of America’s b
 est storytellers. Blockers. It wasn’t a compliment. In the new Washingto
 n\, it was the worst thing you could be—especially if you worked in the 
 federal government and wanted to keep your job. A Blocker was a holdover
 \, an impediment\, someone who didn’t get the message—and\, most of all\
 , someone who didn’t belong. Michael Lewis found seven of them. Blockers
  is the story of people who believed they had a calling\, who were convi
 nced they were doing something the country couldn’t do without\, and the
 n discovered they were no longer wanted. One kept Americans’ most sensit
 ive tax data out of the wrong hands and another made sure that politicia
 ns and civil servants played by the rules. One figured out how to stop w
 ildfires from destroying suburban neighborhoods\, another helped uncover
  the mysteries of cystic fibrosis. There was also a security guard. It s
 hould come as no surprise that the writer who made subprime mortgages gr
 ipping (The Big Short) and who turned baseball statistics into poetry (M
 oneyball) could transform the first two years of the second Trump admini
 stration into a thriller about federal employees. But he does. And he do
 es something else. He puts before us a clear question: If these public s
 erva\n\nhttps://findlocal.community/event/907db9cc-cd21-4c90-a5d8-36226e
 af60dd
LOCATION:White Whale Bookstore\, 4754 Liberty Avenue
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/907db9cc-cd21-4c90-a5d8-36226eaf60d
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