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Title: Enron: The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox ISBN: 0-471-23760-4 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Read in conjunction with Smith/Emshwiller
Comment: This book, plus "24 Days," together tell you everything you need to know about the fall of Enron. This one covers the "rise" better, that one covers the "fall."
What one ought to take away from both books is the realization that, despite the failure and indeed despite the evident criminality, Enron (as Fox says in his epilogue), "wasn't a complete hoax. The company deserved admiration for its early forays into trading gas and electricity, and for its plunge into the innovative financing of energy projects. It out-maneuvered the old-line energy companies to expand the use of derivatives in the energy industry. This introduced new ways of managing risk, which lowered the costs of energy-related transactions for an array of businesses."
Another reviewer has said that the Fox book is a cure for insomnia. The fact is that if you need to have material on Enron MADE interesting for you by dramatic presentation, by a well-shaped narative flow, then you may have trouble with Fox, simply because he lets the material speak for itself.
Sometimes it speaks in ambiguous tones.
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid
Comment: Good, solid background on the history of Enron and its missteps. If you're interested in one stop shopping for an understanding of Enron the corporation from start to finish, this is the best out there so far.
Rating: 3
Summary: A "fair and balanced" treatment that can cure insomnia
Comment: I've read several Enron books, from Cruver's poor product to Lynn Brewer's silly treatise, and I have to say that this one is probably more accurate and balanced than any of the others, but..... it's a real snorefest. Any author that can take a fascinating story like this and put a reader to sleep with it is not really overachieving in my view.
I guess Fox couldn't get anyone significant to talk to him and maybe that held him back some, but it didn't keep Cruver and Brewer and Swartz from producing more entertaining stuff in their efforts which were similarly unencumbered by input from people who were really making it happen. Oh well, he produced a "fair and balanced" treatment that just might help you with that insomnia thing.
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Title: Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron by SHERRON WATKINS, MIMI SWARTZ ISBN: 0385507879 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: What Went Wrong at Enron: Everyone's Guide to the Largest Bankruptcy in U.S. History by Peter C. Fusaro, Ross M. Miller ISBN: 0471265748 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 21 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind ISBN: 1591840082 Publisher: Portfolio Pub. Date: 13 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: 24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America by Rebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller ISBN: 0060520736 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce, Molly Ivins ISBN: 158648138X Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 08 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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