Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. In the most candid
and outrageous look at Wall Street since Liar's Poker, Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, radio and television
commentator, and for years a premier money manager, takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street -- revealing
how the game is played, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.
Confessions of a Street Addict takes us from Cramer's roots in the middle-class Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard,
where he began managing money, and then to Goldman Sachs, where he went into business with his wife -- Karen, the
"Trading Goddess" -- as his partner. He brilliantly describes the life of a money manager: the frenetic
pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the sharklike attacks fund managers
make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.
Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, offering his hard-won insights about the market and
everyone in it, himself included. There has never been a more eloquent market insider than Cramer, nor a more high-octane
book about Wall Street.