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For the love of money : a memoir
Title:
For the love of money : a memoir
Author:
Polk, Sam.
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Publication Information:
New York : Scribner, [2016]
Physical Description:
x, 272 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:
"A former hedge-fund trader presents a memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, his obsessive pursuit of money, his disillusionment and the radical new way he has come to define success, "--NoveList.
Language:
English
Contents:
Unconscious inheritance -- The cheerleader -- Camp Fox -- Numbcake -- Chicken-all-together -- Fifteen pounds -- There's a bomb in my stomach -- The boy with the dragon tattoo -- The burglary -- ON24 -- Fight Club -- Sex in the city -- Spiritual counselor -- Like father, like son -- Brand-name life -- The fulcrum -- Remnants of an accident -- The easy confidence of millionaires -- Nurturing love -- Protector of the stupid -- The least cool thing to order at a bar -- The ice melteth -- The ephemeral prison -- Charleston -- The land of ambition and success -- A castle on a cloud -- A handwritten note -- The Navy SEALs of bond trading -- The anniversary presents -- Sacred creatures -- Gatsby, interrupted -- The Mad Max scenario -- Fear, love, and a billion dollars -- Peter Luger's -- Hear it in the deep -- The bright light of the afternoon.
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ISBN:
9781476785981
Format :
Book