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。但是整个令人遗憾的混乱确实鼓舞了我开始阅读约翰·F·瓦西克（John F. Wasik）的《权力的商人》，这是一本有关塞缪尔·因苏尔和托马斯·爱迪生的书。瓦西克（Wasik）写道，萨姆·因沙尔（Sam Insull）是当时的首席金融企业家，他将爱迪生（Edison）在中央车站发电的基本思想带到了成千上万个城市，使这座现代化大都市成为可能。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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