For the Love of Money: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

“Part coming-of-age tale, part recovery memoir, and part exposé of the rotten, money-drenched Wall Street lifestyle” (Salon), Sam Polk’s unflinching account chronicles his battle to overcome the spirits of his past-and the radical new method he now defines success.

At only thirty years of age, Sam Polk was a senior investor for just one of the biggest hedge funds about Wall Street, around the verge of making it to the very top. When he was provided an annual reward of $3.75 million, he grew angry because it was not about For the Like of Money: A Memoir enough. It had been then he knew he had lost himself in his obsessive quest for money. And he had come to loathe the culture-the shallowness, the sexism, the crude machismo-and Wall Street’s usage of wealth as the only real way of measuring a person’s worth. He decided to leave from it all.

For Polk, learning to be a Wall Street trader was the fulfillment of his dreams. But in reality it had been simply the culmination of a life of addictive and self-destructive behaviors, from overeating, to bulimia, to alcohol and drug abuse. His obsessive quest for money papered over many years of insecurity and psychological abuse. Earning money was just the latest try to fill the void still left by his narcissistic and psychologically unavailable father.

“Vivid, picaresque…riveting” (NewYorker.com), For the Like of Cash brings you into the rarefied world of Wall Street trading flooring, capturing the modern frustrations of young graduates attracted to Wall structure Street. Polk’s “fresh, honest and intimate take on one man’s trip in and from the business…really gives readers something to think about” (CNBC.com). It really is “compellingly created…unflinchingly honest…about the inner journey Polk undertakes to redefine success” (Forbes).