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Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind’s The Smartest Guys in the Room depicts the amazing rise and scandalous fall of Enron. The foreword to this edition has been written by Joe Nocera. Summary of the Book This is the tenth-anniversary edition of the definitive account of the Enron scandal, updated with a new chapter. The Enron scandal brought one of the most esteemed companies of the 1990s down. Numerous books and articles have been written on the rise and fall of Enron. The Smartest Guys in the Room is considered, a decade later, as the complete narrative of the scandal. For this edition, McLean and Elkind have revisited the fall of Enron and its repercussion in a new chapter that asks why Enron still matters in spite of the scandal. The authors also reveal the chances of the crucial players in the scandal. About the Authors Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind compiled this title when they both were Fortune senior writers. McLean was associated with Goldman Sachs as an investment banking analyst. She is now a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and currently lives in Chicago. Elkind was an award-winning investigative reporter. He is currently an editor-at-large for Fortune and lives in Texas.