Best business stories of the year: 2002

?[The editors] cast their net wide, picking up some excellent stories from nontraditional sources that even avid readers of the business press may have missed.??USA Today, on the 2001 editionSeries editor Andrew Leckey and guest editor Ken Auletta have scoured the print media, consulted with the editors of major business and general interest publications, and surveyed journalism school deans to find the best business stories from the last twelve months. Among those selected: Michael Lewis on teenage stock trader Jonathan Lebed, from The New York Times Magazine; James B. Stewart on the irrepressible Michael Milken, from The New Yorker; and many others from the pages of The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Fortune, Rocky Mountain News, and Wired.The second annual edition continues the excellence and comprehensive range of this fascinating anthology series.From the Hardcover edition.