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Intricately detailed yet compulsively readable, Conspiracy of Fools is the best account yet of the Enron debacle. Eichenwald makes you feel like you are there — in the boardroom, on the cell phone — while the deals get brokered and the walls come tumbling down. It's a Bonfire of the Vanities for the twenty-first century, all the more chilling and fascinating because it is true.