Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story-Quality Guarantee

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From an award-winning New York Times reporter comes the full, mind-boggling true storyof the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperileda presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.

It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late2001, the Enron Corporation—a darling of the financial world, a company whose executiveswere friends of presidents and the powerful—imploded virtually overnight, leavingvast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last foryears.

Kurt Eichenwald transforms the unbelievablestory of the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, taking readers behind every closed door—from the Oval Office to the executive suites,from the highest reaches of the Justice Department to the homes and bedrooms of thetop officers. It is a tale of global reach—from Houston to Washington, from Bombayto London, from Munich to Sao Paolo—laying out the unbelievable scenes that twistedtogether to create this shocking true story.

Eichenwald reveals never-discloseddetails of a story that features a cast including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, PaulO’Neill, Harvey Pitt, Colin Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan,Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and Sumner its you-are-there glimpse into the secretive worlds of corporate power, Conspiracyof Fools is an all-true financial and political thriller of cinematic proportions.