Confessions of a Street Addict

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 sinceLiar's Poker,Cramer, co-founder ofTheStreet.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 Addicttakes 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.

James J. Cramer is co-founder of TheStreet.com. In 1987 he founded Cramer Berkowitz, a private hedge fund that he ran until 2000. Cramer is the co-host of Kudlow & Cramer on CNBC. He is the host of Real Money, a nationally syndicated radio show, "Bottom Line" columnist for New York magazine, markets commentator for TheStreet.com, and author of You Got Screwed! Mr. Cramer and his family live in Summit, New Jersey.