Skip to content

24 Days How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies That Destroyed Faith in Corporate America

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 0060520736

ISBN-13: 9780060520731

Edition: 2003

Authors: Rebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller

List price: $25.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

'24 Days' tells the story of the collapse of what would become the world's most notorious corporation - Enron. Over the 24 days of the title, not only was the company destroyed, but investors and company pension-holders were ruined - all while Enron executives were collecting millions of dollars.
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 8/5/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Red Sky Warning
"Our CEO Is Resigning."
"Who's Andy Fastow?"
"You Won't Believe What Skilling Just Told Me."
"I Have Found That Mr. Lay Doesn't Take Kindly to Criticism."
"It Isn't a Contlict of Interest."
"You're Just Scratching the Surface."
"You Are About to Topple a $20B House of Cards."
"I Want to Be CFO of the Year."
"It's Okay to Have a Conflict."
"Make the Journal Go Away."
"He Would Have Done Nothing to Harm Enron."
"Amend My Last Statement."
The 24 Days
"I'm Not Sure It Had a Name."
"You Missed Something That Could Be Really Big."
"Looks Like the SEC Read Your Stories."
"There Is an Appearance That You Are Hiding Something."
"I Must Have Heard the Term Death Spiral a Dozen Times Today."
"Oh, I Expect to Be in the Office All Weekend."
"Those Liars!"
The Party's Over
"Does Ken Lay Know About This Meeting?"
"Don't Approach Their People Again."
"At Least We're Going to Be Part of the Biggest Bankruptcy Ever!"
"Laydoff.com"
Aftershocks and Revelations
"There Will Be Something Else Fun and Exciting on the Other Side."
"Enron Has a Problem You May Want to Write About."
"I Really Got Sucked into This One."
"We Notified Enron's Audit Committee of Possible Illegal Acts Within the Company."
"Do You Guys Have a Shredder Here?"
"I Didn't Look Closely. I Didn't Want to Know Too Much."
"You've Got to Be Kidding Me."
"I Feel I Just Can't Go On."
"There Was a Young Turk Arrogance."
"Next Time Fastow Is Going to Run a Racket, I Want to Be Part of It."
"Often He Was Just Goofy."
The Perp Walk
"The Arrogance. The Lack of Accountability."
"Enron's CFO, Kopper, and Others Devised a Scheme to Defraud Enron and Its Shareholders."
"Americans Only Learn from Catastrophe and Not Experience."
Index