For the Love of Money
Sam Polk
Scribner
In 2014, a former hedge fund trader's <i>New York Times</i> <i>Sunday Review</i> front page article about wealth addicition instantly went viral. This is his unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting to overcome the ghosts of his past&#8212;and the radical new way he now defines success.<BR>At just thirty years old, Sam Polk was a senior trader for one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, on the verge of making it to the very top. When he was offered an annual bonus of $3.75 million, he grew angry because it was not enough. In that moment he knew he had lost himself in his obsessive pursuit of money. And he had come to loathe the culture&#8212;the shallowness, the sexism, the crude machismo&#8212;and Wall Street's use of wealth as the sole measure of a person's worth. He decided to walk away from it all.<BR> <BR>For Polk, becoming a Wall Street trader was the fulfillment of his dreams. But in reality it was just the culmination of a life of addictive...</BR></BR></BR>