{"product_id":"book-bvta","title":"For the Love of Money","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2014, a former hedge fund trader’s \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSunday Review\u003c\/i\u003e  front page article about wealth addiction instantly went viral. This  is his unflinching memoir about coming of age on Wall Street, fighting  to overcome the ghosts of his past—and the radical new way he now  defines success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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—the shallowness, the sexism, the crude  machismo—and Wall Street’s use of wealth as the sole measure of a  person’s worth. He decided to walk away from it all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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 and  self-destructive behaviors, from overeating, to bulimia, to alcohol and  drug abuse. His obsessive pursuit of money papered over years of  insecurity and emotional abuse. Making money was just the latest attempt  to fill the void left by his narcisstic and emotionally unavailable  father.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs in \u003ci\u003eLiar’s Poker\u003c\/i\u003e, Polk brings readers into the  rarefied world of Wall Street trading floors, capturing the modern  frustrations of young graduates drawn to Wall Street. Raw, vivid, and  immensely readable, \u003ci\u003eFor the Love of Money\u003c\/i\u003e explores the birth of a young hedge fund trader, his disillusionment, and the radical new way he has come to define success.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49347351249200,"sku":"BDbvta","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/329684-bvta-Square.jpg?v=1734202534","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-bvta","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}