In the number, reporter and author alex berenson delves into the inner workings of wall street and all of your favorite multinational conglomerate corporations to explore how a single number perhaps figure is more accurate is the only thing that matters in determining whether a companys stock soars or tumbles. Likewise his hero, john wells, does not get the attention he deserves. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the faithful spy. Smalltime drug dealer ahmed shakir is tricked into participating in a terrorist attack at a basketball game in dallas and then is blown up along with. He began his career in journalism in 1994 as a business reporter for the denver post, joined the financial. Every three months, 14,000 publicly traded companies report. This is the theory in alex berensons book the number.
In 2006, the faithful spy, his debut novel, won the edgar award from the mystery writers of america for best first novel. The same year, he went to work at the denver post as a business reporter. The assumption underlying this book is that numerous investors are still trying to figure out what hit them. With a new afterword by the author and a new foreword by mark cuban in this commanding bigpicture analysis of what went wrong in corporate america, alex berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for the new york times, examines the common thread connecting enron, worldcom, halliburton, computer associates, tyco, and other recent. With a new afterword by the author and a new foreword by mark cubanin th. Alex berenson born january 6, 1973 is a former reporter for the new york times and the author of several thriller novels and a book on corporate financial filings. The new york times a holdyourbreath thrillera grabber. As a reporter for the new york times, alex berenson has covered topics ranging from the occupation of iraq to the flooding of new orleans to the travails of the pharmaceutical industry. This novel was very successful and berenson won the 2006 edgar award for the best first novel by an american author. In the number, he offers a compelling account of how many largenumber corporations went astray in the late 1990s.
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This number has become part of a game to be played, a figure to be manipulated beat the number and wall street all but throws a parade, miss it and a companys stock may be abandoned. After attending the yale university, he graduated in 1994 with a ba in history and economics. In this commanding bigpicture analysis of what went wrong in corporate america, alex berenson, a top financial investigative reporter for the new york times, examines the common thread connecting enron, worldcom, halliburton, computer associates, tyco, and other recent corporate scandals. The paperback edition of the book was number one on the new york times bestseller list. Alex berenson was born in new york in 1973 and grew up in englewood, n. Berensons book has collided with a vast range of people, from numbercrunching social scientists to healthpolicy researchers, to say. The recent wall street meltdown and dotbomb implosion may have taken ordinary investors by surprise, writes new york times business reporter berenson, but it was no news to the executives whose bad accounting and fraudulent ways nearly brought down the whole house of cards looking back a mere year, to march 2002, the author reminds us that osama bin laden had. Alex berenson born january 6, 1973 is a former reporter for the new york times. Below is a list of all alex berenson books he has written. Alex berenson books list of books by author alex berenson. His spy fiction series is very popular, and begins a few weeks after september 11th.
How the drive for quarterly earnings corrupted wall. Berenson offers a very american storya sort of terrorist high noonexciting. The number by alex berenson book cover, description, publication history. In 1996, he became one of the first employees at, the groundbreaking financial news website. He began his career in journalism in 1994 as a business reporter for the denver post, joined the financial news website in 1996, and worked as an investigative reporter for the new york times from 1999 to 2010, during which time he also served two stints as an iraq war. Their newest book is tell your children and was released on january, 8th 2019. Alex berenson is the most under appreciated of the excellent modern espionage thriller writers such as vince flynn, brad thor, mark greaney, tom clancy, barry eisler, etc. How the drive for quarterly earnings corrupted wall street and corporate america ebook written by alex berenson.
Author alex berensons complete list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions and availability. Alex berenson, a whipsmart new york times business reporter, is a wisecracking playbyplay commentator. Alex berensons the number provides a comprehensiv, brutally factual overview of how wall street and corporate america lost their way during the great bull market that began in 1982. He has now written twelve john wells novels and two nonfiction books, the number and tell your children. Alex berenson is probably best known as the author of the john wells espionage thrillers, 11 of them so far, but until 2010 he was a reporter, including for 11 years at the new york times, where his assignments ranged from the pharmaceutical industry to hurricane katrina. He left the new york times in 2010 to devote himself to writing fiction, though he still contributes occasionally to the new york times. Many of the scientists whose work is cited in the book, tell your children. Mother jones admits it overstated cannabis mental health. He attended yale university and joined the times in 1999, where he covered everything from the drug industry to hurricane katerina and served as a correspondent in iraq. If you love alex berensons books you need the most comprehensive book list available, which includes a check list, alternative titles, page counts, movie adaptations, coauthors, star ratings, and a host of other features, plus. The book, tell your children, has received a lot of media attention, but its essentially reefer madness 2. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the number. Alex berenson is a former new york times reporter and awardwinning novelist.
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