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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0739317687
ISBN-13: 9780739317686
Mar 2005
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Abridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
The fall, in 2001, of the much-touted corporate giant the Enron Corporation made headlines as billions of dollars virtually disappeared and reports of corporate malfeasance surfaced. Investors--including pension plans, Enron employees, and ordinary Americans--were left stunned, angry, and broke. A concerned public asked how it happened, and wanted to know whether the company's inflated status and its political connections had enabled it to circumvent the oversight of both its own accounting firms as well as the SEC. Focusing on the major players and the events that led to Enron's demise, financial journalist Kurt Eichenwald unravels the scandal and the investigation that led to charges against Ken Lay, Enron's chairman and CEO, and his associates. Eichenwald reveals much about the inner workings of Enron, the exuberant corporate environment, and the high-stakes game of Wall Street. THE CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS is based on Eichenwald's reporting for the New York Times, and on his research in voluminous sources, including notes, transcripts, tapes, memos emails--as well as many interviews with principles. Overall, it makes sense of, and clearly indicates a need for change in, business as usual in corporate America. It is also a highly readable, epic account of power and greed. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year for 2005.
Industry Reviews
"There's a lot to like about CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS....It has an encyclopedic sense of completeness [and] the book is an easy, page-turning read....The last several hundred pages, a minute-by-minute account of an imploding company, is a riveting slice of business journalism that bursts with chaos, adrenaline, and despair."
Salon - Andrew Leonard (03/15/2005)
"The writing is crisp and clear, and as the stories take on their separate lives, the march toward catastrophe builds inexorably from tentative little steps to determined strides, and finally to a wide-eyed, wild-haired, all-out sprint to the cliff. The overall effect is riveting....CONSPIRACY OF FOOLS is a splendid achievement. Mr. Eichenwald has an encyclopedic grasp of a watershed business collapse, and has turned it into a gripping read, a true tale for out times."
New York Times - Charles R. Morris (03/24/2005)
"[A] prodigious feat of reporting. [Eichenwald's] writing is reader-friendly. He manages to convey a sense of the dizzying confusion and nerve-wracking tension that infused the company years before it fell. The narrative is broken up into short, cinematic takes, each a study in corporate stress, humiliation, envy and macho preening. All this makes what is, after all, a story about accounting go down easy."
New York Times Book Review - Steve Fraser (03/27/2005)
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