Now a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring
Leonardo DiCaprio
"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER
By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it
as fast as he could, on drugs, sex, and international
globe-trotting. 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 and did his bidding, here, in his own inimitable words, is
the story of the ill-fated genius they called . . .
THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
In the 1990s Jordan Belfort, former kingpin of the notorious
investment firm Stratton Oakmont, became one of the most infamous
names in American finance: a brilliant, conniving stock-chopper who
led his merry mob on a wild ride out of the canyons of Wall Street
and into a massive office on Long Island. Now, in this astounding
and hilarious tell-all autobiography, Belfort narrates a story of
greed, power, and excess that no one could invent.
Reputedly the prototype for the film "Boiler Room, " Stratton
Oakmont turned microcap investing into a wickedly lucrative game as
Belfort's hyped-up, coked-out brokers browbeat clients into stock
buys that were guaranteed to earn obscene profits--for the house.
But an insatiable appetite for debauchery, questionable tactics,
and a fateful partnership with a breakout shoe designer named Steve
Madden would land Belfort on both sides of the law and into a
harrowing darkness all his own.
From the stormy relationship Belfort shared with his model-wife as
they ran a madcap household that included two young children, a
full-time staff of twenty-two, a pair of bodyguards, and hidden
cameras everywhere--even as the SEC and FBI zeroed in on them--to
the unbridled hedonism of his office life, here is the
extraordinary story of an ordinary guy who went from hustling
Italian ices at sixteen to making hundreds of millions. Until it
all came crashing down . . .
Praise for "The Wolf of Wall Street"
"Raw and frequently hilarious."--"The New York Times"
"A rollicking tale of Jordan Belfort's] rise to riches as head of
the infamous boiler room Stratton Oakmont . . . proof that there
are indeed second acts in American lives."--"Forbes"
"A cross between Tom Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities "and
Scorsese's "GoodFellas ." . . Belfort has the Midas touch."--"The
Sunday Times "(London)
"Entertaining as pulp fiction, real as a federal indictment . . .
a hell of a read."--"Kirkus Reviews"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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