Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron

Swartz, Mimi; Watkins, Sherron

ISBN 10: 0385507879 / ISBN 13: 9780385507875

Published by Doubleday (edition 1), 2003

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron
• Publisher: Doubleday (edition 1)
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385507879
• ISBN 13: 9780385507875
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1.
• Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

Follows the story of Enron from the perspective of the vice president who exposed its illegal practices, tracing how its "anything-goes" culture led to its being hailed a model company and recounting its highly publicized collapse. 150,000 first printing.

About the Authors

MIMI SWARTZ is an executive editor at Texas Monthly and won a National Magazine Award in the public interest category in 1996. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker and Talk, and has written for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. She lives in Houston with her husband and son.

SHERRON WATKINS is a former Arthur Andersen accountant who joined Enron in 1993, working for the man who later became CFO, Andy Fastow. She worked in Enron’s finance group, its International company, and its Broadband division, before returning to work for Fastow as a vice president in corporate development. As a result of her memos to Ken Lay urging the company to change its accounting practices and restate its ear

Mimi Swartz is an executive editor at Texas Monthly.