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Bethany McLean
Investigative business journalist; Vanity Fair contributing editor, formerly Fortune
The Smartest Guys in the Room remains the definitive account of Enron and her Fortune reporting broke the story before the collapse.
5 books of their own · 27 articles
Books they wrote 5
Articles and essays 27
- Why private equity needs you more than you need themThe Washington Post, 2025 · paywalled
- How CEOs turn hype into capitalThe Washington Post, 2025 · paywalled
- A reckoning over capitalismThe Washington Post, 2025 · paywalled
- Bethany McLean author archiveProMarket (Stigler Center, University of Chicago) - 53 posts, 2024
- Operation Warp Speed: The Untold Story of the COVID-19 VaccineVanity Fair, 2023
- Private InequityWashington Monthly, 2023
- Bethany McLean contributor archiveVanity Fair, 2023
- Too Big to Fail, COVID-19 Edition: How Private Equity Is Winning the Coronavirus CrisisVanity Fair, 2020
- "He's Full of Shit": How Elon Musk Fooled Investors, Bilked Taxpayers, and Gambled Tesla to Save SolarCityVanity Fair, 2019
- "We Didn't Cause The Crisis": David Sackler Pleads His Case On The Opioid EpidemicVanity Fair, 2019
- Inside Wall Street's Complex, Shameful, and Often Confidential Battle with #MeTooVanity Fair, 2018
- How Wells Fargo's Cutthroat Corporate Culture Allegedly Drove Bankers to FraudVanity Fair, 2017
- The True Story of the Comey Letter DebacleVanity Fair, 2017
- J-Rod! Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez on Love, Beauty, and RedemptionVanity Fair, 2017
- The Valeant Meltdown and Wall Street's Major Drug ProblemVanity Fair, 2016
- Why Sheryl Sandberg, Bill Bradley, and Oprah Love Mellody HobsonVanity Fair, 2015
- Everything You Know About Martin Shkreli Is Wrong - or Is It?Vanity Fair, 2015
- The Empire RebootsVanity Fair, 2014
- Yahoo's Geek Goddess (Marissa Mayer)Vanity Fair, 2014
- Bethany McLean author archiveFortune, 2014
- Is Hedge-Fund Titan Steve Cohen Going Down?Vanity Fair, 2013
- Town of WhispersVanity Fair, 2013
- Accounting for Obamacare: Inside the Company That Built Healthcare.govVanity Fair, 2013
- Blood in the Water (Goldman Sachs and the Blankfein succession)Vanity Fair, 2012
- Jamie Dimon on the LineVanity Fair, 2012
- Bethany McLean author archiveThe New York Times, 2009 · paywalled
- Is Enron Overpriced?Fortune, 2001