Edison to Enron Energy Markets and Political Strategies

Edison to Enron presents a readable, illustrated history of the U.S. natural gas and electricity industries with an emphasis on market development and political strategy. It contains new historical material on Samuel Insull, the co-founder of General Electric, and includes chapters on many of the 20th century's large electricity and natural gas companies as well as their founders. Weaving the historical market development story with the political strategy employed by the founders, this book entertains as well as enlightens.

ROBERT L. BRADLEY JR., a 16-year Enron employee and Ken Lay confidant, is a noted free-market scholar and public-policy entrepreneur. The founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research, Bradley is the author of numerous books and essays on the history and political economy of energy. He is an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.; a visiting fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and an honorary senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2002, he received the Julian Simon Memorial Award for his work on energy and sustainable development.
Bradley lives in Houston and likes to spend time in the beautiful Texas Hill Country.