Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (616 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0767911792 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 784 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eichenwald also reveals how Enron manipulated electricity prices during the California energy crisis of 2000. Was Enron just a cautionary sign of the greed and lack of ethics of a few bad apples, or was it more symptomatic of an entire market system? That may be a debate for another book. What went wrong? Veteran New York Times financial journalist Kurt Eichenwald does an epic job of telling Enron's story in his 742-page tome Conspiracy of Fools. We see how federal regulators opened the doors for the Enron fraud early on when they let the company loosen up its accounting rules and essentially cook its books. Eichenwald, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2000, also authored The Informan
From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever. With its you-are-there glimpse into the secretive worlds of corporate power, Conspiracy of Fools is an all-true financial and political thriller of cinematic proportions.. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul O’Neill, Harvey Pitt, Colin Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan, Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone. Kurt Eichenwald transforms the unbelievable story of the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, taking readers behind every closed door--from the Oval Office to the executive suites, from the highest reaches of the Justice Department to the homes and bedrooms of the top officers. Eichenwald reveals never-disclosed details of a story that features a cast including George W. In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. It was the corpora
"Fascinating Story, Very Well Told, But With Some Unbelievable Details" according to T Edwards. Fascinating story and very well written. I really enjoyed this book.The only quibble I have is the apparently unchallenged acceptance of "information" that must have been gained from interviews with Jeffrey Skilling and Ken Lay. I don't know how an author is supposed to treat the lying interviewee, but I would think that it might be bett. "Brilliant Account of Corporate Greed" according to 1Train. I rarely purchase non-fiction books by author but this is the third book that I've read by Kurt Eichenwald. His accounts are riveting andConspiracy of Fools, The Informant, and 500 Days are all equally enthralling.. More corporate fraud Walter S. Freeman Greed and incompetence combine to fleece shareholders - yet again. Eichenwald has provided a detailed if necessarily somewhat fictional history of ENRON and of it's genesis and demise. The fiction is the creation of dialogue and non-verbal background where no factual record exists. I found those creations to be wholly logical and believa