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Bethany McLean

Vanity Fair Contributing Editor and Co-Author of All the Devils are Here and the National Bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean is a columnist for Slate and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She joined Slate in October 2010 and Vanity Fair in July 2008 after spending thirteen years at Fortune, where she was an editor-at-large. In early 2001, McLean was one of the first reporters to raise questions about Enron, with her story “Is Enron Overpriced?” She and fellow Fortune senior writer Peter Elkind exposed the Enron scandal and wrote the national bestseller The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, which went on to become an Oscar-nominated documentary.

McLean has also written in-depth pieces about the credit rating agencies, Goldman Sachs, President Clinton’s global philanthropy, Australia’s Macquarie Bank, and more. Before joining Fortune, she spent three years as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. She graduated from Williams College in 1992 with a double major in mathematics and English.

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"Let’s Toss Out Home Equity Loans"
The Washington Post

"McLean: Faith-based Economic Theory"
Reuters Magazine

"On Eve of $41 Billion MF Global Bankruptcy Filing, Jon Corzine Was Château Shopping in France"
Vanity Fair

"Reading the Financial Crisis"
Salon

"The Habits at Highly Successful Workplaces"
Chicago Tribune

From the Fortune Archives: "Goldman Sachs: After the Fall"
Fortune

"Book review: Confidence Men by Ron Suskind"
The Washington Post

"Be Afraid: Why the Markets Are Tanking"
Slate

"Key Players of the Financial Crisis"
CNN Money

"A Zero-sum Game with Mortgages as the Dice"
The Hindu

"Falcone Quest"
Vanity Fair

"McLean Discusses Outlook for AIG Share Sale"
Bloomberg TV

"'Kill Them, Bury Them': The Rise Of Fannie And Freddie"
NPR's Morning Edition

"Interview with Bethany McLean: Exposing the Fig Leaf"
International Business Times

"Video Interview With Bethany McLean, Co-Author of All the Devils Are Here"
The Huffington Post

"Corporate Subprime: The default crisis that never happened"
Slate

"Michael Lewis & Bethany McLean: Is Wall Street Clean?"
NPR's On Point

"Goldman Sachs partners couldn't lose with 'windfall' stock options"
The Guardian

"McLean Says Financial Crisis `Involved Many Actors'"
Bloomberg.com

"The Sure Thing"
Slate

"How to Understand the Disaster"
Business Standard

"You Are There: A Review of All The Devils Are Here"
Forbes

Interview with Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
NPR's Planet Money

"The Bank Job"
Vanity Fair

"Who Wants a 30-Year Mortgage?"
The New York Times

"Welcome to the Casino"
The New York Times Book Review

"Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera's All the Devils Are Here
The Washington Post

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera discuss All the Devils Are Here
PBS NewsHour

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera discuss All the Devils Are Here
Charlie Rose

"What now: Writing the laws of financial reform"
American Public Media's Marketplace

"How the roof fell in on Countrywide"
Fortune

"Q & A with Bethany McLean, Author of All the Devils Are Here
ChicagoMag.com

"Take a Load Off Fannie"
Slate

All the Devils Are Here Review
Inc.com

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here"
Financial News

"A Financial Party Platter"
Slate

"Confronting the devils of the financial and sovereign debt crises"
The Telegraph

"McLean and Nocera's All the Devils Are Here"
The Huffington Post

"Bookshelf: All the Devils are Here"
Minneapolis Star Tribune

Interview with Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera
The Daily Show

All the Devils are Here is a Notable Book of 2010
New York Times

"Devils of Economic Collapse Exposed"
CNN's Parker Spitzer

Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera on Panel
MSNBC's Meet the Press

Review of All the Devils are Here
The Seattle Post Intelligencer

"Bethany McLean: a history of the financial crisis"
NPR's Marketplace

"Subprime ‘Devils’ Made O’Neal, Greenberg Wreck Economy"
BusinessWeek

"Financial Crisis in All the Devils are Here"
MSNBC

"Late Arrival to Credit Crunch Book Party"
The Financial Times

"All the Devils are Here Review
BusinessWeek"

Bookshelf: All the Devils are Here
Minneapolis Star Tribune

"All the Devils are Here: Best Business Book of 2010"
The Huffington Post

"Business Books: The 30-Year History of the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis"
Time

All the Devils are Here is a 2010 Top Business Book
Bloomberg.com

"The Blundering Herd"
Vanity Fair

"Meet the Real Villain of the Financial Crisis"
The New York Times

"Why did Merrill Lynch Fail? 'Goldman Sachs Envy,' Says New Book"
WSJ.com

"Fannie Mae's Last Stand"
Vanity Fair

"The Borrowers"
The New York Times

Interview with Bethany McLean (minute 8)
AlJazeera's Frost over the World

Interview with Bethany McLean
Nzone Tonight

"Billions in Bogus Bonuses?"
PBS's NOW

"The Appraisal Racket"
Slate

"Piecing it together"
The Economist

Bethany McLean's Article Archive
Vanity Fair

Bethany McLean speaks at RSA about the Hidden History of the Financial Crisis

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Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera on The Charlie Rose Show

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Featured Book

<em>All the Devils Are Here</em> Buy Now

All the Devils Are Here

"When the financial crisis of this decade is being taught in business schools in the next, All the Devils Are Here could be the textbook."

—Time

"Two of our finest business journalists have written a thorough account of the origins of the financial crisis of 2008. More than offering just a backward look, it helps explain the most troubling business headlines of the moment, as well as those that are certain to come."

—The New York Times Book Review

Speaking Topics

  • The Financial Crisis (All the Devils Are Here)
  • Enron (The Smartest Guys in the Room)
  • Business Ethics
  • Government Regulation of Business
  • Wall Street
  • Print Journalism

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