24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America32 reviews Rebecca Smith, John R. Emshwiller Collins, 2003 Good read + Read it and learn + Good read + Good Classical Journalism + How Investigative Journalism helps bring the downfall of Enron             Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story of the World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster14 reviews Dominique Lapierre, Javier Moro Grand Central Publishing, 2003 So We Never Forget + Friend of the downtrodden + Why did it happen: GREED! + A FASCINATING READ             The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, Second Edition7 reviews Richard L. Rashke Cornell University Press, 2000 One Conspiracy Theory That Just Might Be True + An important piece of recent American history. + An Excellent Addition to Studying Karen Silkwood! + Courage Where We Find It + Outstanding             Inside the FDA: The Business and Politics Behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat8 reviews Fran Hawthorne Wiley, 2005 The FDA's job may not be able to be justified + Everything you want to know about the FDA. + Highly Informative (and Neutral) Look at the FDA + Interesting look at an important regulatory body             The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition57 reviews Upton Sinclair See Sharp Press, 2003 The reason I pay my union dues + Important, not-to-miss + Jungle + Timeless Classic             Silkwood41 reviews Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell MGM (Video & DVD), 2003 Silkwood: One Of The Best + as good as film gets Wonderful intriguing movie. Makes you wonder and Think, like a good movie should. I hope Mike Nichols decides to do a movie on the 2008 Presidential Primary race: how Hillary Clinton received more votes than any of her rivals, and more votes than any Presidential Primary candidate in History. Base ...             Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story142 reviews Kurt Eichenwald Broadway, 2005 Giving You, The Stockholder, The Business + Read it. + a horror story of greed and incompetence + Excellent, revealing, very well written + The Backroom Story of Ethics Failure             Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine50 reviews John Abramson Harper Perennial, 2005 From a pharmacist + Glad I ordered this book + Overdo$ed Is Right + Simply a must read + Sorting out medical knowledge from advertising             The History of the Standard Oil Company: Briefer Version2 reviews Ida M. Tarbell Dover Publications, 2003 The Early History of Standard Oil + the caspian sea oil This is a wonderful account of the beginnings of the Standard Oil Company - from the perspective of one of the premier muckracker's of the 19th century. The book is mainly a series of articles strung together detailing some of the more illegal efforts of John D. Rockefeller to create a monopoly ...             Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron34 reviews Mimi Swartz, Sherron Watkins Doubleday, 2003 Enron......Sad in a way + A Stockbrokers perspective + Exceptional Story of the Enron Tragedy + The most important reason for this book is to make the layman aware of just what a travesty the Enron scandal was..... + Chaser for "The Smartest Guys in the Room" - kind of Enron lite             Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software82 reviews Steven Johnson Scribner, 2002 Nice soft intro to concepts of self-organisation + Emergence - The Study of Macro-behavior resulting from Micro-level Agents. For those with a technical interest in the matter, this is a nice soft intro to the topics with which concerned. It is written with a somewhat emotional style; probably not an ideal technical resource. For the readers not akin to the concepts at all, the book successfully conveys a nice (and ...             The Informant: A True Story96 reviews Kurt Eichenwald Broadway, 2001 Truth Really IS Stranger than Fiction + Unbelievable! + Got Greed? + unbelievable ! + I thought this book was excellent!             Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans8 reviews Spotlight Press, 2006 Excellent book + Masterpiece of Photojournalism + great time document + Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans             Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile2 reviews Ralph Nader Pocket Books, 1966 A MUST !!! + Oldie, but goodie As a Traffic Safety Specialist, this book is a MUST, this old book needs to be mandatory reading for any person interested in Road Safety, Ralph documented the resistance of car companies to the introduction of safety features, like safety belts, that looks timely today, for example with the lobby ...             The Billion Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug22 reviews Barry Werth Simon & Schuster, 1995 difficult, fascinating, and compelling birth of a company + Great Story and Case Study + Good book + Insightful             Fast Food Nation1409 reviews Eric Schlosser Harper Perennial, 2005 The true world of Fast Food opens before your eyes! + By the Author of Outstanding You + highest approval + One Fast Food National Under God ! ?             All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)150 reviews Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford Warner Home Video, 2006 Buy This Even If You Have An Older Version. + THE WATERGATE SCANDAL + Good Movie This DVD is worth buying for the voice-over commentary by Robert Redford alone. You will not be disappointed.             Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower30 reviews Cynthia Cooper Wiley, 2008 Extraordinary Book on Extraordinary Circumstances + A must read for anyone in auditing or a finance role + Insider's report on the WorldCom fraud + Excellent first book! + COMPELLING             Den of Thieves85 reviews James B. Stewart Touchstone Books, 1992 Will History Repeat Itself? + A Brilliant Tragic Epic + Easy Money + Good read             Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers45 reviews Daniel Ellsberg Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003 how and why our government lies to us + History behind the Pentagon Papers + Rare History + book + An insider's account of the abuse of power of consecutive presidents and their administrations