The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort - True Crime Business Memoir - Paperback Book

Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9781444778120. Publisher: Two Roads. Overview. The Wolf of Wall Street is Jordan Belfort's explosive true memoir of life inside Stratton Oakmont, the brokerage empire he built and burned to the ground through fraud, excess and unchecked greed. This paperback edition brings Belfort's fast, brash and darkly funny voice to a new generation of readers, retelling the outrageous rise and spectacular fall that inspired Martin Scorsese's award-winning film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. It's a candid, unflinching account of ambition without limits.. About the Book. Jordan Belfort was a small-time stockbroker who, before he was thirty, built Stratton Oakmont into one of the most notorious brokerage houses on Wall Street, making himself hundreds of millions of dollars through pump-and-dump schemes and market manipulation. In this memoir he narrates his own extraordinary story in vivid, unapologetic detail: the yachts, helicopters, drugs, and multi-million-dollar mansions bought with other people's money, alongside the boiler-room sales floor where hundreds of young brokers were trained to sell worthless stock with relentless, scripted pressure. Belfort doesn't shy away from the darker consequences of his choices, including the collapse of his marriage, his descent into addiction, and the federal investigation that finally caught up with him, resulting in a guilty plea and 22 months served in prison. Written with the pace and dialogue...