Kurt Eichenwald
Kurt Eichenwald has written about Wall Street for The New York Times since 1987. He began investigating the Prudential scandal in 1989 and, in 1993, took a leave from his daily Market Place column to investigate Prudential Bache full time. His efforts yielded Serpent on the Rock and a Publisher's...
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Kurt Eichenwald has written about Wall Street for The New York Times since 1987. He began investigating the Prudential scandal in 1989 and, in 1993, took a leave from his daily Market Place column to investigate Prudential Bache full time. His efforts yielded Serpent on the Rock and a Publisher's Award from the Times.
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A political and financial thriller, a page turner....and it's non-fiction. Eichenwald shows, rather than tells, the rise of a little known or respected oil and gas pipeline company named Enron into the behemoth that was destroyed by incompentence, greed, mismanagement, and utter willful ignorance. T...
Conspiracy of Fools is a fascinating book about Enron. Yep, that Enron, the company that killed so many people's retirement plans. The story of what happened is fascinating. The presentation is good. The writing is good. But I was less than satisfied with the book as a whole. This is a common pr...
For anybody interested in the Enron scandal, this is your book. It's long, but well worth it. It doesn't feel like you're beaten over the head with a meandering history lesson. It reads like a novel in some ways, and it leaves you turning the pages. 5 stars
The Informant by Kurt Eichenwald is one of those stories that's so strange, it's almost hard to believe. The movie, while it was pretty good, left out a whole lot of strange. The book digs deeper into the strange shenangians of Mark Whitacre. True, he was helping out the government at the time... bu...
I would probably give this one 3.5 stars if I could. I liked this a lot. The story was very engaging, especially since you know it is a true story. And I spent the entire novel wondering whether or not Whitacre was a good guy or not cause I seriously was just waiting for him to flip out or something...
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