Bethany McLean,Peter Elkind

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Bethany McLean is an American journalist and author, and Peter Elkind is an American journalist and editor. McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a former Fortune magazine writer who first raised questions about Enron's finances. Elkind is an investigative journalist who has spent his career uncovering corporate fraud and... misconduct. The Smartest Guys in the Room is their definitive account of the Enron scandal, one of the biggest corporate frauds in American history. The book traces the rise and spectacular collapse of the energy company, exposing the hubris, deception and recklessness of its executives and the institutional failures that allowed the fraud to continue. It was adapted into an acclaimed documentary film. Available as both a book and an audiobook, The Smartest Guys in the Room offers gripping listening and reading — a masterclass in investigative business journalism that reads like a thriller and remains the definitive account of one of the great corporate disasters of modern times. Read more Show less