The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
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The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Bethany McLean , and Peter Elkind
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Release Date: 2004-09-28

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Like its subject, The Smartest Guys in the Room is ambitious, grand in scope, and ruthless in its dealings. Unlike Enron, the Texas-based energy giant that has come to represent the post-millennium collapse of 1990s go-go corporate culture, it's also ultimately successful. Penned by Fortune scribes Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, the 400-page-plus chronicle of the scandal digs deep inside the numbers while, wisely, maintaining focus on the "smart guys" deep-frying the books. The likes of paternal but disengaged CEO Ken Lay (dubbed "Kenny Boy" by George W. Bush, one of many prominent public figures with whom he rubbed shoulders), cutthroat man-behind-the-curtain Jeff Skilling, and ethically blind numbers whiz Andy Fastow vividly come to life as they make a mockery of conventional accounting practices and grow increasingly arrogant and bind to their collective hubris. They're not a likable lot, and the writers find it difficult to suppress their astonishment and revulsion with the crew who rapidly went from golden boys and girls of the financial world to pariahs when the bill finally came due. The authors' unrepressed sarcasms are more than often unnecessarily given the scope of the outrage. Enron's leading lights were or a time celebrated for their ability to concoct nearly unfathomable business schemes to hide mounting shortfalls and keeping track on their machinations can be a chore, but, by sticking hard to the story behind the fall, McLean and Elkind have reported and written the definitive account of the Enron debacle. --Steven Stolder

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Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President's Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga. And the critics agree:
“This book is right up there with Den of Thieves and Barbarians at the Gate. . . . Those who want to learn what happened here, you don't have to read anything but this.” —James Cramer, CNBC

“The best book about the Enron debacle to date. . . . Based on hundreds of interviews and fresh details, McLean and Elkind masterfully weave together the many strands of the Enron story. They shine in their characterizations of Enron's often incompetent executives.” —Wendy Zellner, BusinessWeek

“News junkies and mystery lovers who enjoy financial scandals will devour this multilayered book. . . . The Smartest Guys in the Room will rival other models of the genre, including James Stewart's Den of Thieves. . . . The authors write with power and finesse. Their prose is effortless, like a sprinter floating down the track. . . . The character sketches of former chairman Kenneth Lay, former CEO Jeff Skilling and ex-chief financial officer Andrew Fastow are masterful.” — Edward Iwata, USA Today

“Powerful and shocking. . . . succeed[s] in opening a disturbing window into both the company and the era . . . filled with fascinating characters and anecdotes.” —Jonathan A. Knee, The New York Times Book Review

“The Smartest Guys in the Room is utterly professional, readable and—even though you know what's coming—highly entertaining.” —Daniel Gross, The Washington Post

“Meticulously reported and compelling . . . a cautionary tale about highfliers who weren't as clever as they thought.” —David Koeppel, Entertainment Weekly

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Blunt, intriguing analysis of Enron.......2007-10-05

This book goes through Enron's rise and fall while analyzing each main character. McLean and Elkind have researched well.

This is quite entertaining and a fun read. The only downside is the large number of characters, but the authors have provided a character description list in the beginning of the book. I frequently referred to the characters' descriptions.

Overall, a good book on Enron's choices over the years.

5 out of 5 stars The smartest guys in the room.......2007-09-10

A very well-written account of the rise & fall of Enron. I couldn't put it down

4 out of 5 stars Wanted to read the book after seeing the documentary........2007-08-23

I purchased the book after seeing the documentary in an Ethics class taken during an MBA program at Oklahoma City University. I wanted a little more detail on how things got so blatently out of hand at Enron. I've also read the Conspiracy of Fools. I'm very intrigued by the human nature aspect of this story. We are not being realistic, if we don't think this very same situation could happen anywhere at anytime. More people didn't come forward because their personal livlihood was in jeopardy, even though they had concerns about the ethics of the operation. These were very smart people who let their arrogance get in the way. In the end, everyone was to blame, but no one was to blame. Based on what I understand of the personalities of the Enron Leaders - this was their destiny. It was bound to happen - it only took some time. The biggest question of all - who is next.

5 out of 5 stars Great book on bad management.......2007-08-02

Bad management and the amazing power of human beings to self-delude is on full display in the Enron debacle. This book does a good job of telling a complex story with a large cast of characters. I think it will help supervisors and business owners more that the latest fad book on business and leadership. These guys make excellent bad examples.

3 out of 5 stars Case Study of Corruption on Steroids.......2007-06-05

I purchased this book after having watched the movie of the same name. The book is a very detailed and meticulous recounting of the rampant greed and corruption that was Enron. What you come to discover is that through highly-technical accounting schemes and tricks Enron turned itself into a seeming juggernaut of a business from just a staid old pipeline company. Enron really thought that the free market enabled it to do anything and trade any kind of commodity from weather derivatives to paper pulp, oil, and broadband. What you come to find out in this book though is that they never really had a way to deliver what they kept promising Wall Street.

Enron was a big house of cards all propped up by their stock price. Once that dropped, all hell broke loose. The company was obsessed with the stock price, posting it in elevators and encouraging employees to invest as much of their 401K monies into it as possible. They even created elaborate hedge funds that were based on the stock staying above certain levels. In order to keep the stock at lofty levels they lied and used "creative" accounting to fool Wall Street.

The real reveal in reading this book however is that Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay really have a vast number of compatriots to join them as teh villians here. Andy Fastow, now the government stoolie, was arguably worse than both Lay and Skilling. And yet, thanks to his cooperation, he gets far less jail time.

This book is a slow read, and not for the half-hearted. For the vast majority you are really better off watching the film.
Enron: The Rise and Fall
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Enron: The Rise and Fall
Loren Fox
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"I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02
The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Fox promises readers nothing short of the most compelling and insightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded by Wall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and its spectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner, Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American business history happened, why for so long no one (except for an enlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be on financial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and the public for years to come. With access to many company insiders, Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides an overview of the corporate culture and business model that led to Enron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story of Enron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energy markets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come. Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonest accounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions, suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too far too fast.

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"I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02
The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Fox promises readers nothing short of the most compelling and insightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded by Wall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and its spectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner, Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American business history happened, why for so long no one (except for an enlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be on financial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and the public for years to come. With access to many company insiders, Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides an overview of the corporate culture and business model that led to Enron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story of Enron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energy markets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come. Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonest accounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions, suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too far too fast.

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2 out of 5 stars Incredibly boring .......2006-01-09

Loren Fox's account of the Enron debacle is one of the more boring written on what was a fascinating story of greed and corporate immorality. I have read three books regarding the downfall of Enron (The Smartest Guys in the Room and Anatomy of Greed being the others), and this was the most difficult read of the three, by far.

First, Fox's account reads more like a Harvard Business School case study than anything else. For some, this may be attractive, but explaining forwards, swaps and various other derivatives over three pages isn't the most exciting reading one can do. It is valuable if you really want to dig into Enron's beginnings with "asset light" philosophy, but one really only needs this level of detail if they are delving into the corporate world of derivatives and trading. For the rest of us, it is uneccessary and quite boring. Given the time Enron: The Rise and Fall was written (shortly after the bankruptcy), it is insightful. Also given that it was written before The Smartest Guys in the Room was released, it was at one time probably the best of the bunch. Now that other information has been released via congressional hearings and other written accounts, the information provided by Fox reads like a textbook.

Another problem is that Fox misses much of the personality of the executives and other employees of Enron. He admitedly has little to go by other than written records at that time, and has little more than detailed accounts of Enron's activities to show for it. While important to describe in detail how Enron evolved into the company it became, he misses the personalities behind the evolution. For instance, the corporate structure was such that people from every division within the company clashed at every turn. This is a mere mention in Fox's account, whereas in The Smartest Guys in the Room, this is an important part of the Enron downfall. Also, the California debacle is mentioned briefly in The Rise and Fall, but without the detail that the other story gives. What is just as important about the rise and (if not more importantly) the fall of Enron, are the egomaniacal personalities behind the company. These personalities are not described in nearly enough detail in The Rise and Fall, leaving the story bland and lacking.

What is left is a textbook story of Enron that leaves out much of the drama of the real Enron. While I appreciate that Fox avoided some of the Hollywood, daytime television aspects of Enron (unlike The Smartest Guys in the Room or Anatomy of Greed) to merely sell books, much of this aspect of the Enron story is important to the overall tale of "The Rise and Fall." Unfortunately, it is missing in Fox's book.

4 out of 5 stars Insightful!.......2004-08-31

Enron's story seems to have happened all at once. There was a big company with a stock price shooting for the stars and, then, suddenly there was a massive fraud, and the two things came so close together it was like hearing the explosion from a fireworks display after you've seen the light in the sky. Loren Fox's account was one of the first books about Enron and remains one of the best. The author is a skillful, diligent reporter who managed to get the story first and get it right, although Enron did not authorize his book or cooperate with him. His discussion of the company's complex, illegal accounting maneuvers is thorough and, if not quite clear, certainly complete. The book was written during the relatively early stages of the legal proceedings against the architects of the Enron fraud, so a lot of the material uncovered by Justice Department and SEC investigators was not yet available. The demerit of this is that Fox was not able to include much that is now common knowledge about Enron. However, we find that there is an advantage as well: Fox was not excessively guided or directed by common knowledge and conventional wisdom, but instead carved his own path through the thicket of Enron's weird and instructive history.

4 out of 5 stars Read in conjunction with Smith/Emshwiller.......2004-01-20

This book, plus "24 Days," together tell you everything you need to know about the fall of Enron. This one covers the "rise" better, that one covers the "fall."

What one ought to take away from both books is the realization that, despite the failure and indeed despite the evident criminality, Enron (as Fox says in his epilogue), "wasn't a complete hoax. The company deserved admiration for its early forays into trading gas and electricity, and for its plunge into the innovative financing of energy projects. It out-maneuvered the old-line energy companies to expand the use of derivatives in the energy industry. This introduced new ways of managing risk, which lowered the costs of energy-related transactions for an array of businesses."

Another reviewer has said that the Fox book is a cure for insomnia. The fact is that if you need to have material on Enron MADE interesting for you by dramatic presentation, by a well-shaped narative flow, then you may have trouble with Fox, simply because he lets the material speak for itself.

Sometimes it speaks in ambiguous tones.

5 out of 5 stars Solid.......2003-09-27

Good, solid background on the history of Enron and its missteps. If you're interested in one stop shopping for an understanding of Enron the corporation from start to finish, this is the best out there so far.

3 out of 5 stars A "fair and balanced" treatment that can cure insomnia.......2003-09-18

I've read several Enron books, from Cruver's poor product to Lynn Brewer's silly treatise, and I have to say that this one is probably more accurate and balanced than any of the others, but..... it's a real snorefest. Any author that can take a fascinating story like this and put a reader to sleep with it is not really overachieving in my view.

I guess Fox couldn't get anyone significant to talk to him and maybe that held him back some, but it didn't keep Cruver and Brewer and Swartz from producing more entertaining stuff in their efforts which were similarly unencumbered by input from people who were really making it happen. Oh well, he produced a "fair and balanced" treatment that just might help you with that insomnia thing.
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    "I'd say you were a carnival barker, except that wouldn't be fair tocarnival barkers. A carnie will at least tell you up front that he's running a shell game. You, Mr. Lay, were running what purported to be the seventh largest corporation in America."-Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) to Enron CEO Kenneth Lay, Senate Commerce Science & Transportation's Subcommittee, Hearing on Enron, 2/12/02 The speed of Enron's rise and fall is truly astonishing and perhaps the single most important story of corporate failure in the twenty-first century. In Enron investigative journalist Loren Fox promises readers nothing short of the most compelling and insightful investigation into Enron's meteoric ascent-regarded by Wall Street and the media as the epitome of innovation-and its spectacular fall from grace. In a lively and authoritative manner, Fox discusses how the biggest corporate bankruptcy in American business history happened, why for so long no one (except for an enlightened few) saw it coming, and what its impact will be on financial markets, the U.S. economy, U.S. energy policy, and the public for years to come. With access to many company insiders, Fox's intriguing account of this corporate debacle also provides an overview of the corporate culture and business model that led to Enron's high-flying success and disastrous failure. The story of Enron is one that will reverberate in global financial and energy markets as well as in criminal and civil courts for years to come. Rife with all the elements of a classic thriller-scandal, dishonest accounting, personal greed, questionable campaign contributions, suicide-Enron captures the essence of a company that went too far too fast.
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                                The potential for northern participation in the exploration and development of non-energy mineral mines in northern Alberta: Final report
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                                  M. B Dufresne
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                                  Solitary Waves in Dispersive Complex Media
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                                    Solitary Waves in Dispersive Complex Media
                                    Vasily Y. Belashov , and Sergey V. Vladimirov
                                    Manufacturer: Springer
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                                    This book is devoted to one of the most interesting and rapidly developing areas of modern nonlinear physics and mathematics - the theoretical, analytical and advanced numerical study of the structure and dynamics of one-dimensional as well as two- and three-dimensional solitons and nonlinear waves described by Korteweg-de Vries (KdV), Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP), nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) and derivative NLS (DNLS) classes of equations. Special attention is paid to generalizations (relevant to various complex physical media) of these equations, accounting for higher-order dispersion corrections, influence of dissipation, instabilities, and stochastic fluctuations of the wave fields. The book addresses researchers working in the theory and numerical simulations of dispersive complex media in such fields as hydrodynamics, plasma physics, and aerodynamics. It will also be useful as a reference work for graduate students in physics and mathematics.

                                    Deepen The Mystery: Science and The South Onstage
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                                    • An Amazing Race
                                    • Great plays for science classes
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                                    Deepen The Mystery: Science and The South Onstage
                                    Lauren M Gunderson
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                                    ASIN: 0595379664

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                                    This first collection of award-winning full-length plays by Lauren Gunderson includes:

                                    LEAP— A delightful, moving synthesis of science, history, and magic with a young Isaac Newton and two mysterious sisters. “LEAP features splendid language and easy confidence with heady material. Think Tom Stoppard,” - Creative Loafing

                                    BACKGROUND—a time-twisting, science-drama about the inspirational study of cosmology and the devastating effects of denied credit. Based on a true story of Dr. Ralph Alpher.

                                    PARTS THEY CALL DEEP—A hilarious southern drama with three generations of women in a Winnebego. “PARTS THEY CALL DEEP is a little gem,”—New York Times

                                    “It is easy to imagine future theatrical success for Gunderson and this year's YPI winners,”—New York Times

                                    “There's no denying she's one of the most formidably talented voices to emerge here in years.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution

                                    Customer Reviews:

                                    5 out of 5 stars An Amazing Race.......2006-05-10

                                    Lauren Gunderson's "Deepen the Mystery" is an amazing race through some of her amazing work. her work takes science to a level beyond its steriotype of being boring. science becomes in evocative jouney of "how and why things are." she creates the world through science, as the greeks did through their myths. this book is one of my favorite read and by the end of it I shed my share of tears.

                                    5 out of 5 stars Great plays for science classes.......2006-01-24

                                    For anyone interested in injecting some theatrical literature into their science classes, this book is a must. Last semester (fall 2005) we used "Leap" in our theatre-physics course with great success. The play generated great discussions about Newton, Newton's discoveries, and the nature of creative ideas. Similarly, "Background" was used in our introductory astronomy class during the segment on cosmology. The astonomy students universally (no pun intended) commented that the play brought the very abstract nature of cosmic background radiation down to a more personal level.

                                    5 out of 5 stars An Amazing Playwright.......2006-01-13

                                    First of all, let me say I have yet to actually read her book, but I know from personal experience working with Ms. Gunderson on one of her most recent productions that this collection will review well across the literary boards. Lauren is supremely talented at what she does, especially at such a young age. For those of you interested in the evocative realms of science and historical fiction, Ms. Gunderson's work is right up your alley, so do yourself a service and pick up her first book!

                                    Nick Ocheltree
                                    Texas Lutheran University
                                    Dramatic Media Department

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