The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Elkind, Peter, McLean, Bethany New Edition

by Bethany McLean

Paperback

Published January 1, 1994

About the author

Bethany McLean is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair magazine, and known for her work on the Enron scandal. She had been an editor at large and columnist for Fortune magazine.

McLean grew up in Hibbing and received her BA in English and mathematics at Williams College in 1992. After college and prior to joining Fortune, she worked as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs.

Reviews

[Sam Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great exposition of a strange mix of fraud and stupidity.

[Oruese · Rating 5 out of 5]

Will forever be in awe of how Enron managed to pull off a fraud of such scale as a PUBLIC company.