The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron [color=rgb(85, 85, 85) !important]Paperback [color=rgb(85, 85, 85) !important]– November 26, 2013by Bethany McLean (Author), Peter Elkind (Author), Joe Nocera (Foreword)


The tenth-anniversary edition of the definitive account of the Enron scandal, updated with a new chapter

The Enron scandal brought down one of the most admired companies of the 1990s. Countless books and articles were written about it, but only The Smartest Guys in the Room holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative. For this tenth anniversary edition, McLean and Elkind have revisited the fall of Enron and its aftermath, in a new chapter that asks why Enron still matters. They also reveal the fates of the key players in the scandal.


Editorial ReviewsReview“The best book about the Enron debacle to date.”
—BusinessWeek

“The authors write with power and finesse. Their prose is effortless, like a sprinter floating down the track.”
—USA Today

“Well-reported and well-written.”
—Warren Buffett