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The Smartest Guys in the Room

by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2021
  • First published 2003

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Two Fortune reporters tell how Enron used accounting tricks and aggressive trading to hide losses before it collapsed in 2001.   They focus on the executives and the culture that allowed it.