The Smartest Guys in the Room : The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)

from LynnB

After seeing a play about Enron, I wanted to learn more. This book is well researched and makes most of the complex deals and accounting policies understandable. An excellent tale of corporate greed.

from ElectricRay

This is a great book about a truly remarkable part of our economic history. I have a minor physical complaint I might as well get off my chest: In their desire to make sure readers get bang for buck (fear not: you do), the publishers have elected to set this book in miniscule type, meaning firstl...

from rivkat

Readable account of this canary-in-the-coalmine scandal (though there were plenty of other canaries) about a company that slowly rotted from the beginning while using accounting tricks to make it seem like it was in good shape. The corporate culture of excess was a huge contributor, since people ...

from drbubbles

Presumes some familiarity with corporate finance, or at least the terms used to describe it.

from defrog

The full story of the Enron scandal. As I mentioned last time, I'm not usually a fan of corporate/business books, but this had me riveted - I suppose because Enron was as much personality-driven as anything else, and the personalities were so amazingly arrogant that the whole thing has a train-wr...