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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.62092
EAN: 9780553807042
Edition: First Edition
ISBN: 0553807048
Item Dimensions: 150960163640
Label: Bantam
Manufacturer: Bantam
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: February 24, 2009
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date: February 24, 2009
Studio: Bantam
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In the go-go nineties Jordan Belfort proved to Wall Street that you didnât need to be on Wall Street to make a fortune in the stock market. But his company, Stratton Oakmont, worked differently. His young Long Island wannabes didnât know from turnaround plans or fiduciary trust. Instead, they knew how to separate wealthy investors from their cash, and spend it as fast as it came in--on hookers, yachts, and drugs. But when Jordanâs empire crashed, the man who had become legend was cornered into a five-year stint cooperating with the feds. This continuation of his Wall Street Journal bestseller, The Wolf of Wall Street, tells the true story of his spectacular flameout and imprisonment for stock fraud.
In this astounding account, Wall Streetâs notorious bad boy--and original million-dollar-a-month stock chopper--leads us through a drama worthy of The Sopranos, from his early rise to power to the FBI raid on his estate to the endless indictments at his arrest, to his deal with a bloodthirsty prosecutor to rat out his oldest friends and colleagues--while they were doing the same. With his kingdom in ruin, not to mention his marriage, the Wolf faced his greatest challenge yet: how to navigate a gauntlet of judges and lawyers, hold on to his kids and his enraged model wife--and possibly salvage his self-respect. It wasnât going to be easy. In fact, for a man with an unprecedented appetite for excess, it was going to be hell.
From a wired conversation at an Italian restaurant, where Jordanâs conscience finally kicks in, to a helicopter ride with an underage knockout that will become his ultimate undoing, here is the tale of a young genius on a roller coaster of harrowing highs--and more harrowing lows. But as the countdown to his moment in court begins, after one last crazy bout with a madcap Russian beauty queen, the man at the center of one of the most outrageous scandals in financial history sees the light of what matters most: his sobriety, and his future as a father and a man. Will a prison term be his first step toward redemption?
Amazon Exclusive: Jordan Belfort on Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
 At this moment, our financial system has all but imploded. Real estate prices have plummeted, Wall Street's most venerable investment banks have gone belly up, the credit-crunch has brought the economy to a grinding halt, and once-thriving cities have been turned into financial Hiroshimas, with foreclosed homes littering every block and abandoned pets roaming the streets.
When I wrote my first book, The Wolf of Wall Street, I wanted it to serve as a cautionary tale to anyone who was living a life of unbridled hedonism, to anyone who thought there was something glamorous about being known as a Wolf of Wall Street. Now, with Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, the dire economic straits we find ourselves in have made that desire even more powerful.
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street is an eye-opening glance into the self-destruction of my own life, as a result of my own criminal actions.
In short, I get my comeuppance...and then some.
You might find many of the chapters to be completely hysterical (reading about someone elseâs pain can be that way sometimes, especially when they deserve to feel pain, like I did), but I can assure that writing this book was an incredibly painful undertaking, especially the parts that dealt with my separation from my children when I went to jail. I shed many a tear, dredging up those memories, and I found myself having a renewed appreciation for some of lifeâs simpler things, like freedom, for one.
That being said, when I look back at it all, I can only come to one sad conclusion: that I lived one of the most dysfunctional lives on the planet. I put money before integrity, greed before ethics, and covetousness before love. I chose friends unwisely, cut corners wherever I could, and then drowned my guilt and remorse beneath elephantine doses of recreational drugs.
I deserved to get caught.
Of course, some of you might be wondering whether or not Iâve changed at all--if Iâm truly sorry for my crimes, and if the many public apologies Iâve made to people who lost money as a result of my actions were, indeed, sincere.
The answer to that is an unequivocal yes; I am sorry, and I do apologize. In fact, not a day goes by when the mistakes of my past donât back up on me or are thrown in my face. But then I remind myself why I wrote these books in the first place, and of the many supportive letters Iâve received from people all over the world, whoâve gotten the intended message--namely that: crime doesnât pay. Perhaps the latest crop of Fat Cat CEOs and Wall Street powerbrokers will get that message too.
Then we go about fixing this mess.--Jordan Belfort
(Photo © Blake Little)
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In this astounding account, Wall Streets notorious bad boy leads us through a hotly paced from his early rise to power to the FBI raid on his estate to the endless indictments at his arrest, to struggling to find a way to salvage his self respect.
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The first book was good even thou it put me to sleep after reading about getting high thirty times. This book was way better than the first one. I could actually follow it without getting confused and the story is a lot more juicy. I love it. Would read it again anytime.
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Just like his first one, I enjoyed this book.. It being a true story and at the same time an outrageous story make it a very interesting, fun read.
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It is hard to review this book because we get so upset about the main character that our feelings spread to the book itself. The book is fun and interesting, not because it is well written (it is not) but because the situation itself is original and adventurous. Therefore, the only merit Belfort has as an author is that "he has been there".
In this book, Belfort tells us about the events after getting caught by the FBI, how he ratted his friends, and his relationship with women. He sounds like he was very sorry about being caught, but not at all about the people he screwed. In fact, the first thing he does after his money runs dry is to start selling mortgage based loans to poor people (knowing well that they will lose their houses).
Belfort suffers from a pathological inability to put himself in other people's shoes, he is unable to relate to feelings and to have anything more than a childish relationship with anyone. This goes for his victims and his women. My bet is that he is a psychopath in some degree. He refers to his second wife as a Duchess, and basically has a marriage based on sex. Everybody tells him she is a gold-digging whore, but he is the only one who can't see it (she is). Then he goes on to live with a dysfunctional super-model who can't even have a conversation with him. Women are trophies for his vanity.
The only truth we read in the whole book is when the judge says that he is not super-talented as he thinks, that many people as talented as him didn't get as much money just because they refrained from crossing the criminal line. That's the bottom line: Belfort is not super smart, he is a super liar, one who lies even to himself.
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This book was not as good as the first, the wolf of wall street, howeer it was great
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This book was written with the same wit and humor as his first. I found him to be less boastful and even remorseful at times.
His use of nicknames (Magnum, Mormon, the witch, KGB etc) for the various characters was funny at first, however, becomes tiring when you start guessing correctly the nickname before reading it.
I had to laugh when I read the acknowledgements as he thanks Nadine for being a wonderful caring mother. Clearly his memory has failed him and he has forgotten about the nights she never came home because she was out "test driving" rich suitors to replace Jordan after his "blood money" eroded.
Well worth the read if you are interested in following the story from when the FEDS catch him.
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