I'm not going to write about Enron. I promise. But the whole sorry mess did inspire me to begin reading "The Merchant of Power," by John F. Wasik, a book about Samuel Insull and Thomas Edison. Sam Insull was the premier financier-entrepreneur of his time, writes Wasik, the man who took Edison's basic idea of generating electricity at central stations to thousands of cities, making the modern metropolis possible. Besides being the financial mind behind our power grid, he was also, according to Wasik, a tyrant and a scoundrel.
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机译：我不会写有关安然的文章。我承诺。但是整个遗憾的混乱使我开始阅读约翰·F·瓦西克（John F. Wasik）的《权力的商人》，这本关于塞缪尔·因沙尔（Samuel Insull）和托马斯·爱迪生（Thomas Edison）的书。 Wasik写道，Sam Insull是当时的首席金融企业家，他将爱迪生在中央车站发电的基本思想带到了成千上万的城市，这使现代大都市成为可能。根据Wasik的说法，除了成为电网背后的财务头脑外，他还是暴君和流氓。
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