Joe Nocera's Best Non-Fiction Business Books Ever

Steve Jobs may think he's a "scumbag" but we here at Flashlight Worthy think Joe Nocera is an excellent business reporter. He recently ran a blog piece on what he thinks are the best non-fiction business books ever. Take a look at the list below and judge for yourself.

onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Liars_Poker_Rising_Through_the_Wreckage_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140143459'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Liars_Poker_Rising_Through_the_Wreckage_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140143459'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis Amazon says: As described by Lewis, Liar's Poker is a game played in idle moments by workers on Wall Street, the objective of which is to reward trickery and deceit. With this as a metaphor, Lewis describes his four years with the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers, from his bizarre hiring through the training program to his years as a successful bond trader. Lewis illustrates how economic decisions made at the national level changed securities markets and made bonds the most lucrative game on the Street. His description of the firm's personalities and of the events from 1984 through the crash of October 1987 are vivid and memorable. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Liars_Poker_Rising_Through_the_Wreckage_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Liars_Poker_Rising_Through_the_Wreckage_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0140143459'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 256 page paperback \|$9.69 \|217 reviews This book also appears on Every Book by Michael Lewis


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Devils_Candy_The_Anatomy_of_a_Hollywood_Fiasco');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0306811235'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Devils_Candy_The_Anatomy_of_a_Hollywood_Fiasco');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0306811235'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco by Julie Salamon Amazon says: When Brian De Palma agreed to allow Julie Salamon unlimited access to the film production of Tom Wolfe's best-selling book "The Bonfire of the Vanities," both director and journalist must have felt like they were on to something big. How could it lose? But instead Salamon got a front-row seat at the Hollywood disaster of the decade. She shadowed the film from its early stages through the last of the eviscerating reviews, and met everyone from the actors to the technicians to the studio executives. They'd all signed on for a blockbuster, but there was a sense of impending doom from the start. This riveting insider's portrait provides a timeless account of an industry where art, talent, ego, and money combine and clash on a monumental scale. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Devils_Candy_The_Anatomy_of_a_Hollywood_Fiasco');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Devils_Candy_The_Anatomy_of_a_Hollywood_Fiasco');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0306811235'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 448 page paperback \|$17.05 \|6 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Box_How_the_Shipping_Container_Made_the_World_Smaller_and_the_World_Economy_Bigger');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0691136408'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Box_How_the_Shipping_Container_Made_the_World_Smaller_and_the_World_Economy_Bigger');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0691136408'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger by Marc Levinson Amazon says: In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. "The Box" tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of the sharp fall in transportation costs that containerization brought about. Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the first container voyage, this is the first comprehensive history of the shipping container. It recounts how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur, Malcom McLean, turned containerization from an impractical idea into a massive industry that slashed the cost of transporting goods around the world and made the boom in global trade possible. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, both from private investors and from ports that aspired to be on the leading edge of a new technology. It required years of high-stakes bargaining with two of the titans of organized labor, Harry Bridges and Teddy Gleason, as well as delicate negotiations on standards that made it possible for almost any container to travel on any truck or train or ship. Ultimately, it took McLean's success in supplying U.S. forces in Vietnam to persuade the world of the container's potential. Drawing on previously neglected sources, economist Marc Levinson shows how the container transformed economic geography, devastating traditional ports such as New York and London and fueling the growth of previously obscure ones, such as Oakland. By making shipping so cheap that industry could locate factories far from its customers, the container paved the way for Asia to become the world's workshop and brought consumers a previously unimaginable variety of low-cost products from around the globe. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Box_How_the_Shipping_Container_Made_the_World_Smaller_and_the_World_Economy_Bigger');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Box_How_the_Shipping_Container_Made_the_World_Smaller_and_the_World_Economy_Bigger');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0691136408'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 400 page paperback \|$10.17 \|28 reviews This book also appears on Peter Steinberg's Reading List


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Indecent_Exposure_A_True_Story_of_Hollywood_and_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060508159'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Indecent_Exposure_A_True_Story_of_Hollywood_and_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060508159'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street by David Mcclintick Amazon says: When the head of Columbia Pictures, David Begelman, got caught forging Cliff Robertson's name on a $10,000 check, it seemed, at first, like a simple case of embezzlement. It wasn't. The incident was the tip of the iceberg, the first hint of a scandal that shook Hollywood and rattled Wall Street. Soon powerful studio executives were engulfed in controversy; careers derailed; reputations died; and a ruthless, take-no-prisoners corporate power struggle for the world-famous Hollywood dream factory began. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Indecent_Exposure_A_True_Story_of_Hollywood_and_Wall_Street');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Indecent_Exposure_A_True_Story_of_Hollywood_and_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0060508159'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 576 page paperback \|$12.38 \|7 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_GoGo_Years_The_Drama_and_Crashing_Finale_of_Wall_Streets_Bullish_60s');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0471357545'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_GoGo_Years_The_Drama_and_Crashing_Finale_of_Wall_Streets_Bullish_60s');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0471357545'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s by John Brooks Amazon says: "This book is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." (From the Foreword by Michael Lewis) The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby," Eddie Gilbert. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_GoGo_Years_The_Drama_and_Crashing_Finale_of_Wall_Streets_Bullish_60s');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_GoGo_Years_The_Drama_and_Crashing_Finale_of_Wall_Streets_Bullish_60s');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0471357545'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 374 page paperback \|$24.95 \|7 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Kingdom_and_the_Power_Behind_the_Scenes_at_The_New_York_Times_The_Institution_That_Influences_the_World');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812977688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Kingdom_and_the_Power_Behind_the_Scenes_at_The_New_York_Times_The_Institution_That_Influences_the_World');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812977688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World by Gay Talese Amazon says: This is the classic inside story of The New York Times, the most prestigious, and perhaps the most powerful, of all American newspapers. Bestselling author Talese lays bare the secret internal intrigues behind the tradition of front page exposes in a story as gripping as a work of fiction and as immediate as today's headlines. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Kingdom_and_the_Power_Behind_the_Scenes_at_The_New_York_Times_The_Institution_That_Influences_the_World');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Kingdom_and_the_Power_Behind_the_Scenes_at_The_New_York_Times_The_Institution_That_Influences_the_World');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0812977688'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 576 page paperback \|$12.24 \|2 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Titan_The_Life_of_John_D_Rockefeller_Sr');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400077303'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Titan_The_Life_of_John_D_Rockefeller_Sr');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400077303'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow Amazon says: Titan is the first full-length biography based on unrestricted access to Rockefeller's exceptionally rich trove of papers. A landmark publication full of startling revelations, the book will indelibly alter our image of this most enigmatic capitalist. With cameos by Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, Jay Gould, William Vanderbilt, Ida Tarbell, Andrew Carnegie, Carl Jung, J. Pierpont Morgan, William James, Henry Clay Frick, Mark Twain, and Will Rogers, Titan turns Rockefeller's life into a vivid tapestry of American society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is Ron Chernow's signal triumph that he narrates this monumental saga with all the sweep, drama, and insight that this giant subject deserves. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Titan_The_Life_of_John_D_Rockefeller_Sr');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Titan_The_Life_of_John_D_Rockefeller_Sr');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1400077303'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 832 page paperback \|$12.89 \|43 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Informant_A_True_Story');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767903277'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Informant_A_True_Story');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767903277'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Informant: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Informant_A_True_Story');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Informant_A_True_Story');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767903277'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 656 page paperback \|$11.53 \|93 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/DisneyWar');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743267095'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/DisneyWar');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743267095'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">DisneyWar by James B. Stewart Amazon says: DisneyWar takes readers through a wild up-and-down ride as it describes Eisner's regime as CEO. The tale begins with Eisner's early successes rejuvenating Disney's live-action movie franchise and theme parks, the kickoff of the modern animation era with blockbuster hits like The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, and the cultivation of a highly talented cadre of lieutenants. James Stewart makes clear that Eisner has had a major eye for strong creative content himself, both as a young executive in his pre-Disney years at ABC and at Paramount Pictures and more recently in building partnerships like Disney's extremely lucrative one with Pixar. Just as he credits Eisner for various Disney successes, though, Stewart assigns blame for the failures, too. Much of the book describes detailed and specific interactions between Eisner and his rivals. Readers interested in the entertainment industry or in the personalities which drive it will not be disappointed. The blow-by-blow accounts of Eisner's feuds with Dreamworks SKG founder Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was his chief aide for nearly two decades, and Michael Ovitz, the superagent from CAA who had been friends with Eisner for even longer than that, are amazingly detailed. They show Eisner to be creative, funny, and charming when he wants to be -- and devious, dishonest, and horribly Machiavellian when he doesn't. onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/DisneyWar');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/DisneyWar');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0743267095'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 608 page paperback \|$11.68 \|102 reviews This book also appears on Books about Disney's Corporate Mishegoss


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Do_You_Sincerely_Want_to_Be_Rich_The_Full_Story_of_Bernard_Cornfeld_and_IOS');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767920066'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Do_You_Sincerely_Want_to_Be_Rich_The_Full_Story_of_Bernard_Cornfeld_and_IOS');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767920066'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?: The Full Story of Bernard Cornfeld and I.O.S. by Charles Raw, Bruce Page, Godfrey Hodgson onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Do_You_Sincerely_Want_to_Be_Rich_The_Full_Story_of_Bernard_Cornfeld_and_IOS');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Do_You_Sincerely_Want_to_Be_Rich_The_Full_Story_of_Bernard_Cornfeld_and_IOS');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0767920066'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 592 pages, used, starting at $24.30


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Father_Son_and_Co_My_Life_at_IBM_and_Beyond');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553070118'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Father_Son_and_Co_My_Life_at_IBM_and_Beyond');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553070118'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Father, Son, and Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas J. Watson onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Father_Son_and_Co_My_Life_at_IBM_and_Beyond');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Father_Son_and_Co_My_Life_at_IBM_and_Beyond');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0553070118'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 32 pages, used, starting at $0.01 \|1 review


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/When_Genius_Failed_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_LongTerm_Capital_Management');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375758259'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/When_Genius_Failed_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_LongTerm_Capital_Management');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375758259'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/When_Genius_Failed_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_LongTerm_Capital_Management');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/When_Genius_Failed_The_Rise_and_Fall_of_LongTerm_Capital_Management');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0375758259'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 288 page paperback \|$10.17 \|207 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Greed_and_Glory_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0446384062'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Greed_and_Glory_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0446384062'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Greed and Glory on Wall Street by Ken Auletta onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Greed_and_Glory_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/Greed_and_Glory_on_Wall_Street');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/0446384062'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 292 pages, used, starting at $0.78 \|4 reviews


onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_The_Amazing_Rise_and_Scandalous_Fall_of_Enron');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1591840538'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">	onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_The_Amazing_Rise_and_Scandalous_Fall_of_Enron');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1591840538'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron by Bethany McLean, Peter Elkind onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_The_Amazing_Rise_and_Scandalous_Fall_of_Enron');" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> onClick="javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview('/to_amazon/Joe_Noceras_Best_NonFiction_Business_Books_Ever/The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room_The_Amazing_Rise_and_Scandalous_Fall_of_Enron');" onMouseOver="window.status='http://amazon.com/dp/1591840538'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;"> 464 page paperback \|$10.88 \|127 reviews

If you enjoyed the list above make sure to visit the original piece on The Times where Nocera includes a line or two of commentary on each book and there's a lively conversation in the blog comments.

And if you know any books we should add to the list above, .