Tragic Mistakes, Fraud And Greed: Enron, WorldCom, Adelphia, ImClone, Tyco, Martha Stewart, Arthur Andersen and many others have had their share of bad press over the past couple of years, and that bad press has made for some terrific reading. Compiling the best of this compelling new genre of true business crime stories, The New Yorker's business columnist James Surowiecki has amassed a compelling collection of fallen leaders and the repercussions that accompanied their leaps from grace. Gleaned from the best writing to have appeared in recent magazines and newspapers, such as The Washington Post, Forbes and Vanity Fair, these stories jump off the pages with tales of tragic mistakes, convoluted fraud and outright greed. A common thread that runs through the stories in this collection is the men and women at the top who built their companies from almost nothing, created multi-billion dollar corporations, and then destroyed them with their scandalous behavior. According to Surowiecki, this looting of corporate America by greedy CEOs is "as much a failure of the system as it was a failure of individuals."
