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Bethany McLean

corporate failure / *The Smartest Guys in the Room*, *All the Devils Are Here*

Bethany Lee McLean is an American journalist and contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine. She is known for her writing on the Enron scandal and the 2008 financial crisis. Previous assignments include editor-at-large, columnist for Fortune, and a contributor to Slate.

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