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The Smartest Guys in the Room
AuthorBethany McLean, Peter Elkind
Original titleThe Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
LanguageEnglish
SubjectCorporate Law, Ethics, fall of Enron
GenreNon-Fiction
PublisherPortfolio Trade
Publication date
October 13, 2003
Publication placeUnited States
Media typeHardcover
Pages464
ISBN978-1-59184-053-4

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron is a book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, first published in 2003 by Portfolio Trade. In 2005, it was adapted into a documentary film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

McLean and Elkind worked on the book when they both were Fortune senior writers. McLean had written a March 5, 2001 article for Fortune called, "Is Enron overpriced?"[1]

The book is based on hundreds of interviews and details from personal calendars, performance reviews, e-mails, and other documents. It was called “The best book about the Enron debacle to date” by BusinessWeek.[2]

It hit the New York Times bestseller list[3] and was named one of strategy+business magazine's best business books of 2003.[4]

References

  1. ^ "FORTUNE archive: Is Enron Overpriced? - Jan. 19, 2006". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Enron Under Two Microscopes". 27 October 2003. Retrieved 12 December 2017 – via www.bloomberg.com.
  3. ^ "BEST SELLERS: November 16, 2003". 16 November 2003. Retrieved 12 December 2017 – via NYTimes.com.
  4. ^ "The Best Business Books of 2003". npr.org. Retrieved 12 December 2017.