I cited USAToday's review of the Enron books earlier...
The NYT book review has its reviews...
24 Days
By Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller
The Smartest Guys in the Room
By Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind
"The story of the rise and fall of Enron may provide the best window into the manifold dynamics that drove the boom," writes Jonathan A. Knee, who teaches at Columbia Business School
Rebecca Smith and John R. Emshwiller, reporters for The Wall Street Journal, have written a book that "is basically about their investigation," says Knee. While their reporting "played a critical role in accelerating Enron's exposure," he says, "the Enron story does not lend itself" to this approach. "By organizing the book around various Journal scoops, Smith and Emshwiller give an unbalanced view" of the problems at Enron, writes Knee.
"Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind's powerful and shocking book ... [succeeds] in opening a disturbing window into both the company and the era," says Knee. "Each chapter presents an incisive portrait of some individual corporate executive, Enron division or enabling institution (like its accounting firm)," he says. "The case McLean and Elkind make for the guilt (moral if not necessarily legal) of everyone involved is so overwhelming that the epilogue -- reminding us that to this day no key decision maker has taken any responsibility for his actions -- is truly chilling," says Knee.
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