A year ago it would have been difficult to conceive of an
anthology of stories soley devoted to corporate malfeasance. Today,
the challenge has been to keep it confined to one volume. From P.J.
O’Rourke’s hilarious “How To Stuff A Wild Enron,” in which he
compares trying to understand Enron’s finances to trying to buy an
airline ticket at the best price, to Marc Peyser’s’s perceptive
look at that American institution, Martha Stewart, to Joe Nocera’s
investigation of how it all went wrong, the stories here are
sometimes infuriating, often entertaining, and invariably
informative. Best Business Crime Writing Of The Year is a report
from the front lines of the war zone that has become American
business today by some of our most talented and perceptive
writers.
Includes:
·“The New Bull Market” by Michael Kinsley from Slate
·“In Praise of Corporate Corruption Boom” by Michael Lewis from
Bloomberg News
·“HardBall” by David McClintick from Forbes
·“The Accountants’ War” by Jane Mayer from the New Yorker
·“Enron Debacle Highlights the Trouble With Stock Options” by
Thomas Stewart from Business 2.0
·“Investigating ImClone” by Alex Prud’homme from Vanity Fair