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Title: Anatomy of Greed: Telling the Unshredded Truth from Inside Enron by Brian Cruver, Steve, Professor Salbu ISBN: 0-7867-1205-8 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: September, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.89 (38 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Know your own anatomy
Comment: First off, this is a very interesting read if you are unfamiliar with the situation. Brian did a nice job, he's very funny, and I think you will enjoy it. He is, at times, jaded, but understandably so.
Personally, I had access to numerous Enron corporate execs, corporate counsel, corporate accountants, investment bankers, consultants, etc. for several years in the 90s. Truth be told I was only a fly on the wall at the outset of this mess but I have learned a great deal. With the help of others like Brian I hope that will continue.
The only thing wrong, from my perspective, with this book is that the author does not fully understand the "greed" that overtook the company. He thinks nothing of writing a book that supposedly analyzes this greed. Yet, he thought nothing of doing things that were clearly unethical, possibly illegal, and downright GREEDY for his own benefit AFTER the house of cards collapsed.
His experience on E-bay is a good example. Obviously he felt, as many of us do, that one set of rules applied for his superiors, and another set of rules applied for him. Unfortunately the text is presaged with an "ethical lecture" from his alma mater. In light of this irony, I feel it puts some egg on the face of UT's B-school but the preface is still relevant. Conversely, the argument can be made that ethics must be taught in society LONG before people attend a graduate school.
Greed is Greed people. Let's face it.
In short, this is a GREAT book! I hope that MANY, MANY former Enron employees like Brian choose to do the same. The truth often has many facets and the real truth is never known until the majority have told their story. Nice job Brian, hope I haven't been too critical and I hope you have a great career.
Rating: 5
Summary: More than just an inside perspective
Comment: Loved this book - most of all just couldn't put it down. Cruver worked at Enron, so his stories and his experiences are different from any journalist; although Cruver also reports on the story with unexpected humor. The characters are real, and I could not help turning page after page waiting to see what happens to each of them (read the book in two days!) - even though we may THINK we know how the story ends. This was also the first book, and while other reviewers say Cruver borrowed from news stories they forgot to notice that he wrote this book BEFORE those stories came out. Others question the fact that Cruver was forced to disguise names for legal reasons. Nonsense. Every story I've ever read on the subject of Enron has at least one "anonymous source" so Cruver takes you a step further and pushes the envelope on identifiying these not-so-innocent people. This is simply a great book that will be remembered as the Enron book most entertaining, most interesting, and most well-written. I hope he writes more books, and I can't wait to see the movie version of this one (CBS "The Crooked E").
Rating: 5
Summary: Hysterial and VERY Informative book
Comment: I have read several books on the Enron story, and I have to say, this is one of the best. Cruver's sense of humor is hysterial, and it makes the book fun to read. But, it also provides a lot of insight and a lot of truth behind Enron.
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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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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: 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: Enron: The Rise and Fall by Loren Fox ISBN: 0471237604 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 20 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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