Kurt Eichenwald
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Touchstone hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 611 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
742 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 2001, the Enron Corporation--a darling of the financial world, a company whose executives were friends of presidents and the powerful--imploded virtually overnight, leaving vast wreckage in its wake and sparking a criminal investigation that would last for years. Journalist Eichenwald transforms the Enron scandal into a rip-roaring narrative of epic proportions, suitable for readers of thrillers and business books alike. In the roller-coaster...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive. Written with brutal and affecting honesty, Kurt Eichenwald, who was diagnosed with epilepsy as a teenager, details the abuses he faced while incapacitated post-seizure, the discrimination...
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business giant with a price-fixing accusation based on the evidence submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant Mark Whitacre. The FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent.