Inside Enron's House of Cards

摘要

Even if you've read innumerable accounts of the Enron scandal,you'll find the meltdown depicted in Kurt Eichenwald's Conspiracy of Fools to be an eye-opener.His you-are-there narrative and fastidious attention to detail bring this byzantine saga to life as never before.Where else will you find yourself in ex-CEO Jeffrey Skilling's bedroom as he straggles with the news of his best friend's suicide-or in then-Chairman Ken Lay's office as he prays over the phone with a bankruptcy lawyer who has just asked Lay to give up his job?