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Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time,

so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as

All the President’s Men was the one Watergate book that gave

readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The

Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to

understand this amazing business saga.

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Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind are Fortune senior

writers. McLean is a former investment banking analyst for Goldman

Sachs. Her March 2001 article in Fortune, "Is Enron

Overpriced?," was the first in a national publication to openly

question the company’s dealings. Elkind, an award-winning

investigative reporter, is the author of The Death

Shift.

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当时没有人拍桌子，没有人说这些家伙们是无赖。他们认为自己拥有一群“金天鹅”，而这群金天鹅仅仅是从他们的小金库里偷了一点钱而已。

法斯托成为安然的奥兹魔法师，他开创了安然稳步发展且欣欣向荣的一派假象。法斯托及其团队充当财务策划者，帮助安然在生意现实与那种斯基林和莱想要展示给世人的美好景象之间的鸿沟上建起桥梁。他及其团队创造了资产负债表外的工具以及复杂的融资结构，还有一些至今仍很少有人能理解的扑朔迷离的交易。法斯托的控制领域是国际金融。

在法斯托还是一个高中生的时候，他就野心勃勃。然而这是一种很古怪的野心：没有必要成为最好的，但要从表面看起来是最好的。

作为一家会计公司，其首要的使命是为投资民众服务，而不是为被其审计的公司服务。安达信公司早期座右铭之一是“正直思考，直言不讳”。

随着时间的推移，随着咨询业反客为主的崛起，意味着会计准则的被腐蚀，安达信跨越了越来越多的界限。

早期的安达信会为了原则放弃会计业务，可到了20世纪90年代，几乎没有公司——包括安达信——还会这样做。

法斯托解释说，安然不能发行股票而减少股东的权益，也不能发行债务而伤害公司的信用等级。他接着解释了安然如何发行资产负债表外债务，并借此反哺安然股票。而正是这种策略后来引发了安然最后的危机。

安然从花旗银行借款5.79亿美元，然后又筹集到另外一笔5亿美元的资金，这些债务大部分来自于一个附属于花旗银行的实体，另外还有少量股票来自于其他投资者。清道夫反过来又利用这些购买10亿美元的安然优先股（剩下的7900万美元被用来帮助安然支付投资者的投资报酬）。

安然传奇是一个关于人性弱点的故事，是关于人性中的傲慢、贪婪和狂妄无知的故事；是任由野心胡作非为的故事；是在一个撤销管制的世界中的伟大经历；是一些精明人士自以为下一次赌博可以掩盖他们上一次灾难的故事——而且这些人没有承认他们是错的。

他十分注重建立和保持各种人际关系。在早期生活的每个重要阶段，他都建立了那种保持数十年之久的人际关系。这种关系可不仅仅是私人交情。在随后的生活中，为了谋得一份工作，为了得到帮助，或者为了拉拢信得过的人来到自己身边，他一次又一次地利用这张不断扩大的关系网。正是这种本事使得莱步步高升。

当他意识到能源危机必将改变古板的管道业时，莱认为自己退出政界投身商界的时机成熟了。

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　Like its subject, The Smartest Guys in the Room is ambitious,

grand in scope, and ruthless in its dealings. Unlike Enron, the

Texas-based energy giant that has come to represent the

post-millennium collapse of 1990s go-go corporate culture, it's

also ultimately successful. Penned by Fortune scribes Bethany

McLean and Peter Elkind, the 400-page-plus chronicle of the scandal

digs deep inside the numbers while, wisely, maintaining focus on

the "smart guys" deep-frying the books. The likes of paternal but

disengaged CEO Ken Lay (dubbed "Kenny Boy" by George W. Bush, one

of many prominent public figures with whom he rubbed shoulders),

cutthroat man-behind-the-curtain Jeff Skilling, and ethically blind

numbers whiz Andy Fastow vividly come to life as they make a

mockery of conventional accounting practices and grow increasingly

arrogant and bind to their collective hubris. They're not a likable

lot, and the writers find it difficult to suppress their

astonishment and revulsion with the crew who rapidly went from

golden boys and girls of the financial world to pariahs when the

bill finally came due. The authors' unrepressed sarcasms are more

than often unnecessarily given the scope of the outrage. Enron's

leading lights were or a time celebrated for their ability to

concoct nearly unfathomable business schemes to hide mounting

shortfalls and keeping track on their machinations can be a chore,

but, by sticking hard to the story behind the fall, McLean and

Elkind have reported and written the definitive account of the

Enron debacle. --Steven Stolder

书籍介绍

Just as Watergate was the defining political story of its time, so Enron is the biggest business story of our time. And just as All the President’s Men was the one Watergate book that gave readers the full story, with all the drama and nuance, The Smartest Guys in the Room is the one book you have to read to understand this amazing business saga.