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Language
  
English

Publication date
  
October 13, 2003

Originally published
  
2003

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Country
  
United States

Publisher
  
Portfolio Trade

Media type
  
Hardcover

Page count
  
464

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Original title
  
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron

Authors
  
Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind

Adaptations
  
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

Subjects
  
Corporate law, Ethics, Enron scandal

Similar
  
Energy industry books, Non-fiction books

The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron is a book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, first published in 2003 by Portfolio Trade. In 2005, it was adapted into a documentary film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

McLean and Elkind worked on the book when they both were Fortune senior writers. McLean had written a March 5, 2001 article for Fortune called, "Is Enron overpriced?"

The book is based on hundreds of interviews and details from personal calendars, performance reviews, e-mails, and other documents. It was called “The best book about the Enron debacle to date” by BusinessWeek.

It hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named one of strategy+business magazine's best business books of 2003.

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