For the Love of Money Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Sam Polk
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
125

For the Love of Money by Sam Polk Book Summary

“Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part exposé of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture” (Salon), Sam Polk’s unflinching account chronicles his fight to overcome the ghosts of his past—and the radical new way he now defines success.

At just thirty years old, Sam Polk was a senior trader for one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, on the verge of making it to the very top. When he was offered an annual bonus of $3.75 million, he grew angry because it was not enough. It was then he knew he had lost himself in his obsessive pursuit of money. And he had come to loathe the culture—the shallowness, the sexism, the crude machismo—and Wall Street’s use of wealth as the sole measure of a person’s worth. He decided to walk away from it all.

For Polk, becoming a Wall Street trader was the fulfillment of his dreams. But in reality it was just the culmination of a life of addictive and self-destructive behaviors, from overeating, to bulimia, to alcohol and drug abuse. His obsessive pursuit of money papered over years of insecurity and emotional abuse. Making money was just the latest attempt to fill the void left by his narcissistic and emotionally unavailable father.

“Vivid, picaresque...riveting” (NewYorker.com), For the Love of Money brings you into the rarefied world of Wall Street trading floors, capturing the modern frustrations of young graduates drawn to Wall Street. Polk’s “raw, honest and intimate take on one man’s journey in and out of the business…really gives readers something to think about” (CNBC.com). It is “compellingly written...unflinchingly honest...about the inner journey Polk undertakes to redefine success” (Forbes).

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Book Name For the Love of Money
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
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Language English
E-Book Size 1.05 MB

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My favorite book this year. Sam Polk has written an unnervingly honest, pitch perfect record of the allure and falsehoods of money making in our time. I could not put it down. At turns hilarious, disturbing and exhilarating, this is a seriously great book.

Can’t stop Listening!. The content of the memoir itself is captivating enough, but to have Sam narrate through his own situations, recapturing the emotion and scenery, is beyond entertaining and is a must have!

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The For the Love of Money book written by Sam Polk was published on 19 July 2016, Tuesday in the Biographies & Memoirs category. A total of 125 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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