Release Date:- 2007-09-25
Reviews Counts:- 2007
User Average Rating:- 4.5
Availability:- In Stock
Kind:- ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ā¢ Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could. From the binge that sank a 170-foot motor yacht and ran up a $700,000 hotel tab, to the wife and kids waiting at home and the fast-talking, hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king, here, in Jordan Belfortās own words, is the story of the ill-fated genius they called the Wolf of Wall Street. In the 1990s, Belfort became one of the most infamous kingpins in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who led his merry mob on a wild ride out of Wall Street and into a massive office on Long Island. Itās an extraordinary story of greed, power, and excess that no one could invent: the tale of an ordinary guy who went from hustling Italian ices to making hundreds of millionsāuntil it all came crashing down.
Praise for The Wolf of Wall Street
āRaw and frequently hilarious.āāThe New York Times
āA rollicking tale of [Jordan Belfortās] rise to riches as head of the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there are indeed second acts in American lives.āāForbes
āA cross between Tom Wolfeās The Bonfire of the Vanities and Scorseseās GoodFellas . . . Belfort has the Midas touch.āāThe Sunday Times (London)
āEntertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . . a hell of a read.āāKirkus Reviews