Smartest Guys in the Room The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Name: Smartest Guys in the Room The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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ISBN: 9781591846604

ISBN-10: 1591846609

ISBN-13: 9781591846604

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Authors: Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind, Joe Nocera

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The tenth-anniversary edition of the definitive account of the Enron scandal, updated with a new chapter The Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary edition, McLean and Elkind have revisited the fall of Enron and its aftermath, in a new chapter that asks why Enron still matters. They also reveal the fates of the key players in the scandal.

Book details

List price: $29.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.07" wide x 9.05" long x 1.29" tall
Weight: 1.144



Foreword



Authors' Notes and Acknowledgments


Cast of Characters


Our Values


Introduction



Lunch on a Silver Platter



"Please Keep Making Us Millions"



"We Were the Apostles"



The First Prima Donna



Guys with Spikes



The Empress of Energy



The 15 Percent Solution



A Recipe for Disaster



The Klieg-Light Syndrome



The Hotel Kenneth-Lay-a



Andy Fastow's Secrets



The Big Enchilada



"An Unnatural Act"



The Beating Heart of Enron



Everybody Loves Enron



When Pigs Could Fly



Gaming California



Bandwidth Hog



"Ask Why, Asshole"



"I Want to Resign"



The $45 Million Question



"We Have No Cash!"



The Pursuit of Justice


Afterword


Index