When Smoke Ran Like Water by Devra Davis, HarperCollins, $26, ISBN 0465015212
Deceit and Denial by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, University of California Press, $34.95, ISBN 0520217497
American Heat by Donald A. Brown, Rowman & Littlefield, $25.95, ISBN 0742512967
AT A time when the scandals at Enron and WorldCom have been dragging corporate America’s reputation for truthfulness through the dirt, it is easy for cynics to write off the richest nation in history as ethically bankrupt. Easy, but wrong. As these three books show, the fightback against deceit is nowhere more fervent and scientifically coherent than in the US itself.…
