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  BOOKThe Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron Peter Elkind $4.99
About this product:  BOOKFrom Edison to Enron: The Business of Power and What It Means for the Future of Electricity Richard Munson $24.13
About this product: The blackout of 2003 illuminated just how dependent America is on electricity. It was not just that some 50 million people in eight states and Ontario were cut off from their Televisions, microwaves, ATMs, and email. Without the electrical juice needed to keep their sockets alive, factory managers were forced to close production lines, city managers shut down water deliveries, grocery store clerks watched their frozen inventory slowly melt away. Economists estimated that the blackout cost Americans $5 billion even as energy analysts were predicting that a similar blackout could happen again. The catastrophe forced us to marvel at the unusual ability of sub-microscopic particles to move like waves inside a wire and cause bulbs to glow. It highlighted the complex requirements for managing the massive generators, transformers, transmission lines, and switch boxes needed to tap and deliver flowing electrons. And it revealed the cracks in a 100-year-old industry structure that have been building ever since Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, and their contemporaries first managed to harness electricity and make it available to the masses. From Edison to Enron traces the controversial history of this $210 billion industry—the nation's largest— showcasing the key individuals, technological innovations, corporate machinations, and political battles that have been waged over its control. Ultimately, the author argues that current policies and practices, including those favored by the Bush Administration, are blocking entrepreneurs from producing more efficient, healthy, and sustainable power supplies. Moreoever, he presents an agenda for reforms that will stimulate economic development in the United States and around the world.  BOOKPower Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron Sherron Watkins $10.73
About this product: Company auditors, Sherron Watkins among them, warned top Enron execs from CEO Kenneth Lay on down that the company’s increasing reliance on cooked books and phony reports "will implode in a wave of accounting scandals." As anyone who played the stock market or watched Enron suits do the perp walk on the evening news a couple of years ago will remember, that’s exactly what happened. Texas Monthly editor Swarz and Watkins team up to offer this account, rich in anecdote and numbers alike, of what went wrong and who made it so. Though even-handed throughout, they serve up plenty of righteous scorn for the corporate leaders who enriched themselves as the company disintegrated, and for the name-brand politicians who abetted them. Though Osama bin Laden’s pawns barely dented the U.S. economy, observes Alex Berenson in The Number, Lay and his lieutenants brought it to its knees. Swartz’s and Watkins’s eye-opening account will rekindle new indignation over unpunished crimes and well-rewarded hubris, and it ought to be required reading in business schools henceforth. --Gregory McNamee  BOOKEnron (Modern Plays) Lucy Prebble $14.95
About this product: One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became reviled figures from the financial scandal of the century, with quotes like, "The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did." Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in today. Lucy Prebble's debut play The Sugar Syndrome won her the Critics Circle and George Devine Awards for Most Promising New Playwright in 2003. Since then she has achieved success as a screenwriter for TV with Diary of a Callgirl. Enron is her second play for the stage. Coming in April 2010! One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became reviled figures from the financial scandal of the century with quotes like, "The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did." Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in today. Coming in April 2010! “An exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle.”—The Guardian “Not to be missed. The political theatre of the 21st century has arrived, in some style.”—The Times of London “One of those rare works that crystallizes the mood of its age.”—Daily Telegraph “An exhilarating mix of political satire, modern morality and multimedia spectacle.”—The Guardian “Not to be missed. The political theatre of the 21st century has arrived, in some style.”—The Times of London “One of those rare works that crystallizes the mood of its age.”—Daily Telegraph “One of the most incisive, most grown-up political dramas of the past 10 years.”—Observer “Caryl Churchill’s Serious Money skewered the 1980s; Prebble’s Enron knifes the Noughties.” —Sunday Times of London “The collapse of US energy giant Enron brilliantly reconfigured by Lucy Prebble...(her) great skill lies in her ability to take us through complex concepts with ease, without bemusing or, worse, patronizing us.”—Evening Standard  BOOKThe Enron Collapse Greg Jenkins $9.50
About this product:  BOOKPipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron Robert Bryce $3.73
About this product: The self-destruction of Enron, once America's seventh-largest company, was the most spectacular failure of a company in a generation, with devastating impact on workers, investors, and the American economy. Anyone interested in business or in our culture needs to know just how it happened. Robert Bryce's Pipe Dreams, widely praised as the best book published on Enron, is a hard-hitting, incisive, and compelling narrative that explains the company's rise and fall while illuminating the personalities, egos, and dreams of the people who built the company and of those who destroyed it. In a new afterword to the paperback edition, Bryce also examines the current "state of the suits" and their enormous cost to the American public. "Finally, an Enron book that actually explains what happened at Enron," said Publishers Weekly: "This isn't just the first book to make sense out of the debacle; it's a vivid cautionary tale about the consequences of the lurid excesses-personal and professional."  BOOKAnatomy of Greed: Telling the Unshredded Truth from Inside Enron Brian Cruver $8.66
About this product:  BOOKEnron: The Rise and Fall Loren Fox $9.19
About this product: "A sober and clear-eyed book . . . Fox places the unspooling of Enron in its market-history context, and his book has gravitas." "Offers the most detailed explanation of Enron as a business." "A solid, intelligent, and fair account of the hubris that made Enron famous and important, then crazy and crooked." "[Fox’s] candid, in-depth examination of Enron’s remarkable evolution, corporate culture, and ultimate downfall is in itself remarkable for being both scrupulously detailed while remaining a clear and enjoyable read." The word "Enron" has officially entered the American vocabulary–not as the symbol of excellence and innovation that Chairman Kenneth Lay envisioned but as the corporate embodiment of greed, excess, and unprecedented fraud. Never in history has one company plummeted so quickly from the heights of power and glory to the depths of public humiliation, bankruptcy, and criminal investigation, dragging so many individuals and firms down with it. Simultaneously fascinating and frightening, Enron: The Rise and Fall provides today’s most illuminating and entertaining look on what was right–and wrong–with late twentieth-century corporate America.  BOOKThe Tao of Enron: Spiritual Lessons from a Fortune 500 Fallout Chris Bryan $8.50
About this product: WorldCom. Global Crossing. Tyco. Enron. What do all of these once ballyhooed but now reviled corporations have in common, besides bankruptcy and a passel of soon-to-be-indicted senior executives? They all share a thirst for quick profits at the expense of investors, employees, and the most basic of business ethics. The Tao of Enron shows how the core values at Enron led inevitably to its implosion. By sketching out the stories of several of the principal players in this debacle, the authors show how pride, impatience, a lust for power, and the ability to mentally separate issues of faith from the practice of business joined forces to destroy one of America’s most admired "young" companies. Authors Chris Seay and Chris Bryan examine the universal issues of faith we can learn from this Fortune 500 fallout. The hard-learned lessons can benefit not merely the boardroom, but also the living room. Anyone can fall prey to the same lust for power, possessions, and status that poisoned Enron. Considering that in 1997 over 57 percent of Americans believed you sometimes have to bend the rules to get by in life (Barna Research), this book is necessary in helping us inspect our goals and beliefs and how they play out in our everyday lives. All of us must choose between two roads that stretch out before us––and all of us are "this close" to the dark side.  BOOKEnron and Other Corporate Fiascos: The Corporate Scandal Reader, 2d Bala G. Dharan $27.20
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