The Smartest Guys in the Room [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]

McLean, Bethany and Peter Elkind

ISBN 10: 1591840082 / ISBN 13: 9781591840084

Edité par Portfolio, New York, 2003

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A scarce. signed copy of the first edition in its original jacket. This copy suffered an unfortunate encounter with moisture that penetrated the foot of the spine. However, the damage is minimal considering what could have occurred. The staining is most apparent in the lower corners of the end papers and at the jacket's foot where it appears green and has red ink bleed on the reverse. The lower board corners are also bled. Internally it is clean and free of marks. Binding is solid. It also has some general shelf wear around the jacket and board edges. Overall, this is a fair copy in a like jacket. [Loc: 51].

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Smartest Guys in the Room [SIGNED and INSCRIBED]
• Éditeur: Portfolio, New York
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1591840082
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781591840084
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition, 1st Printing.
• État de l'article: Fair
• État de la jaquette: Fair
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • NonFiction

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Synopsis

Book by McLean Bethany Elkind Peter

Présentation de l'éditeur

There were dozens of books about Watergate, but only All the President's Men gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance and exclusive reporting. And thirty years later, if you're going to read only one book on Watergate, that's still the one. Today, Enron is the biggest business story of our time, and Fortune senior writers Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind are the new Woodward and Bernstein.

Remarkably, it was just two years ago that Enron was thought to epitomize a great New Economy company, with its skyrocketing profits and share price. But that was before Fortune published an article by McLean that asked a seemingly innocent question: How exactly does Enron make money? From that point on, Enron's house of cards began to crumble. Now, McLean and Elkind have investigated much deeper, to offer the definitive book about the Enron scandal and the fascinating people behind it.

Meticulously researched and character driven, Smartest Guys in the Room takes the reader deep into Enron's past—and behind the closed doors of private meetings. Drawing on a wide range of unique sources, the book follows Enron's rise from obscurity to the top of the business world to its disastrous demise. It reveals as never before major characters such as Ken Lay, Jeff Skilling, and Andy Fastow, as well as lesser known players like Cliff Baxter and Rebecca Mark. Smartest Guys in the Room is a story of greed, arrogance, and deceit—a microcosm of all that is wrong with American business today. Above all, it's a fascinating human drama that will prove to be the authoritative account of the Enron scandal.