Young Money

*A NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER*

Every year, thousands of eager graduates are hired by the world's financial giants, where they're taught the secrets of making obscene amounts of money -- as well as how to dress, talk, date, drink, and schmooze like real financiers. Young Money is the exclusive, inside story of this well-guarded world as seen from the ground floor. Investigative reporter Kevin Roose shadows eight rookies as they are exposed to the exhausting workloads, huge bonuses, and recreational drugs that have always characterized Wall Street life.

But they experience something new, too: an industry forever changed by the massive financial collapse of 2008. Throughout their Wall Street apprenticeships, Roose gives an uninhibited voice to these greenhorns as they grapple with questions about morality, prestige, and the value of their work as Wall Street tries to rebuild itself after its ignominious downfall.

From The Wolf of Wall Street to Liar's Poker, Wall Street's stories of greed and ambition are legendary. Young Money offers a fresh view for the new generation. As well as being an expose of recent excess, it is the story of how the financial crisis changed a generation and remade Wall Street from the bottom up.

Author Bio: Kevin Roose is a writer and producer for Fusion TV. Previously, he was business and technology writer for New York magazine and NYMag.com, and before that a staff reporter for the New York Times, where he covered Wall Street for the business section and for DealBook, the Times' award-winning financial news site. He is the author of The Unlikely Disciple, and his writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, ESPN: The Magazine, and other major publications. Kevin resides in Berkeley, California.

‘Incredible . . . A fine book’ - Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show

'A great new read that doubles as a post-crash update to Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker’ - Mother Jones

'If Martin Scorsese's film The Wolf of Wall Street is about the finance industry's greediest adults, Kevin Roose's Young Money is a look at those wolves as cubs' - Amazon.com 'Best Book of the Month'

'A fun fast read that will make you laugh out loud' - Fortune Magazine

‘Highly entertaining and impressive ... Roose's captivating read is sure to appeal to readers young and old who are interested in the zeitgeist of Wall Street since the crash.’ - Publishers Weekly

‘[Young Money] offers a compelling glimpse of Wall Street in the post-2008 recession era...thought provoking, excellent book.’ - Booklist