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Power Failure The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron

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ISBN-10: 076791368X

ISBN-13: 9780767913683

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins

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“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company’s creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. “Don’t assume that there is a smoking gun.” Sherron knew Enron well enough to know that the company was in extreme spin mode… Power Failure is the electrifying behind-the-scenes story of the collapse of Enron, the high-flying gas and energy company touted as the poster child of the New Economy that, in its hubris, had aspired to be “The World’s Leading Company,” and had briefly been the seventh largest corporation in America. Written…    
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Book details

List price: $23.00
Publisher: Crown/Archetype
Publication date: 3/9/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

MIMI SWARTZis an executive editor atTexas Monthlyand won a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 1996. She has been a staff writer forThe New YorkerandTalk, and has written for theNew York Times,Vanity Fair, andEsquire. She lives in Houston with her husband and son. SHERRON WATKINSis a former Arthur Andersen accountant who joined Enron in 1993, working for the man who later became CFO, Andy Fastow. She worked in Enron’s finance group, its International company, and its Broadband division, before returning to work for Fastow as a vice president in corporate development. As a result of her memos to Ken Lay urging the company to change its accounting practices and…    

MIMI SWARTZis an executive editor atTexas Monthlyand won a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 1996. She has been a staff writer forThe New YorkerandTalk, and has written for theNew York Times,Vanity Fair, andEsquire. She lives in Houston with her husband and son. SHERRON WATKINSis a former Arthur Andersen accountant who joined Enron in 1993, working for the man who later became CFO, Andy Fastow. She worked in Enron’s finance group, its International company, and its Broadband division, before returning to work for Fastow as a vice president in corporate development. As a result of her memos to Ken Lay urging the company to change its accounting practices and…