"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 characterisically outspoken, offering his hard-won insights about the market and everyone in it, himself incude. There has never been a more elequent market insider than Cramer, nor a more high-octane book about Wall Street.