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The Smartest Guys in the Room
The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
First Edition: 2003-01 подробнее...
From THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind. Summarized by arrangement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
ISBN: 9781591840084
Pages: 434
Recommendation
Enron seems like old news, but its history is still deeply informative. Its spectacular, 2001 collapse was the first in a series of notorious corporate scandals. Most of the stories Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind tell already had appeared in the news media and the rush-to-publish books that appeared shortly after the scandal. Still, McLean and Elkind offer what may be the most comprehensive, detailed account, written like an anecdote-rich, lively business novel. Their reporting is intriguing and engrossing, though the book could use a timeline. If you’re going to read just one book on the Enron scandal, this is the one that pins it down as much as possible. As the authors note, “Everything was perception; nothing was real.”
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About the Authors
Bethany McLean also wrote All The Devils Are Here and Shaky Ground. Peter Elkind also wrote Client 9, Rough Justice and The Death Shift.
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