Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through the Seductive World of Corporate Crime

by Barry Minkow

At just sixteen years of age, Barry Minkow had started his own company. At twenty, he had taken his multimillion-dollar carpet cleaning firm public. At twenty-one, he faced a twenty-five-year prison... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595550046
• ISBN13: 9781595550040
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Nelson Current
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.7"

Customer Reviews

PICKING UP THE PIECES

Barry Minkow does not mince words nor spare himself in this detailed mesmerizing account of his life. In his zeal for popularity and success as a very young man, a teenager, he misused his brilliance and perpetrated a colossal business scam that caused him to be sent to prison. Having repaid his debt to society and the banks and folks he defrauded he is both wiser and more mature. He has picked up the pieces of his existence and now serves a purposeful life as a Minister helping others. He also uses his skill and experience to aid in fraud-prevention. His book reads like the best of adventure stories or a mystery novel, but it is all true. He delves into the egos of success-driven personalities, the mystik of financial wizardry, survival in prison, and spiritual redemption. Well written. An excellent inside look at investment pitfalls.

Once you start its hard to put this book down!

Barry Minkow spills his guts in this tell all book. I believe it is truly an honest account of how took the wrong path early in life, then changed his ways for the better. His analysis of fraud, and the fundamental reasons behind why people commit fraud are outstanding. The relationships he experienced with people he met along his life path were also very interesting. Once I started to read this book, I could not put it down. Highly recommended.

An unduplicadable story. The best I've read in years...

This book is not a business book. It is not a how to identify fraud book. It is not a book that lectures to those is corporate America on ethics. What is it? The most inspiring book I have read in years. If there are still doubts in your mind about whether or not people can change, Cleaning Up once and for all will prove to you that people can change and in the case of Barry Minkow thousands of would be investors would be a lot poorer if he hadn't!

If you read one book in 2005 make it Cleaning Up!

Rarely do I read autobiographies where the author so honestly discloses his past and current flaws. Cleaning Up is a story that will inspire, encourage and motivate those who have failed--even to the point of prison. The book reads like a movie and no doubt one will shortly follow. It is the perfect gift to inspire a loved one or friend who has just suffered a huge set back. One more thing. I am easily bored and yet I could not put the book down and finished it in two sittings. The book has such continuity and is very well written. The publisher should offer a money back guarantee on this one and would have no takers!

A classic in the making

Nonfiction never read so well! Minkow reveals a combination of strength and vulnerability that can only come from having gone through hell and back. Cleaning Up is no ordinary tale of why crime doesn't pay, but an exciting adventure that page by page draws the reader further in. Clever writing of an intriguing story makes one wonder...who will get to play him in the movie?