Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story

From an awardwinning New York Times reporter comes the full, mindboggling true story of the lies, crimes, and ineptitude behind the Enron scandal that imperiled a presidency, destroyed a marketplace, and changed Washington and Wall Street forever.It was the corporate collapse that appeared to come out of nowhere. In late 2001, the Enron Corporationa darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerfulimploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years.Kurt Eichenwald transforms the unbelievable story of the Enron scandal into a riproaring narrative of epic proportions, taking readers behind every closed doorfrom the Oval Office to the executive suites, from the highest reaches of the Justice Department to the homes and bedrooms of the top officers. It is a tale of global reachfrom Houston to Washington, from Bombay to London, from Munich to Sao Paololaying out the unbelievable scenes that twisted together to create this shocking true story.Eichenwald reveals neverdisclosed details of a story that features a cast including George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul ONeill, Harvey Pitt, Colin Powell, Gray Davis, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alan Greenspan, Ken Lay, Andy Fastow, Jeff Skilling, Bill Clinton, Rupert Murdoch and Sumner Redstone. With its youarethere glimpse into the secretive worlds of corporate power, Conspiracy of Fools is an alltrue financial and political thriller of cinematic proportions.