Madoff with the Money

Name: Madoff with the Money
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Jerry Oppenheimer
ISBN: 9781705261545

Author: Jerry Oppenheimer

Narrator: Oliver Wyman

Unabridged: 9 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics

Synopsis

Madoff with the Money is a deeply disturbing narrative portrait of Bernie Madoff based on dozens of exclusive, news-making interviews -- beginning with his roots and the values, or lack thereof, he was taught in the Madoff home in working class Laurelton, Queens, in the '40s and '50s, to his high-life on Wall Street and in the super-rich enclaves of Palm Beach, London and the French Riviera and everywhere else he stalked, pulling off his shocking $50 billion Ponzi scheme. Through bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimers in depth reporting there will be new revelations to this startling case. Also profiled will be the dozens, if not hundreds of trusting -- and sometimes avaricious victims -- ranging from non-profit Jewish charities, to the likes of seemingly sophisticated celebrities such as Larry King and Zsa Zsa Gabor, to the brilliant French investment manager who slit his wrists after entrusting and losing $1.4 billion to one of history's all-time charlatans -- a manipulative Svengali who the author compares to psychopaths like Charles Manson and Jim Jones.

About Jerry Oppenheimer

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Oppenheimer has written several unauthorized biographies of public figures, including Hillary and Bill Clinton, Anna Wintour, Rock Hudson, Martha Stewart, Barbara Walters, Ethel Kennedy, Jerry Seinfeld, and the Hilton family. In addition to his work as a biographer, he has worked in several different capacities as a journalist, including as an investigative reporter and a producer of television news programs and documentaries.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maryann MJS1228 on January 17, 2016

When money and crime collide on a colossal scale one can be sure that the literary equivalent of ambulance-chasing lawyers will be on the scene documenting the excessive for us all to enjoy. The 100 car-pile-up known as Bernie Madoff is the subject of several insta-books. The title of this one indic......more

Goodreads review by Natalia on October 29, 2009

I totally understand that it will be a few years before the really meaty well-researched books about Madoff will be written. It takes time and distance to write them. But just because this was obviously a quickly thrown-together, sensationalistic book designed to capitalize on the scandal still bein......more

Goodreads review by Tom on November 23, 2013

Sensationalist, biased, repetitive and rushed. Oppenheimer's look into the life of Bernard L Maddof dedicates far too many chapters to his early life in order to make up for a lack of actual substance. Once you get past the oft repeated sound bites from high school chums there is literally nothing of......more

Goodreads review by Tom on August 28, 2015

This surprised me that Madoff seemed to have so many signs of mendacity going all the way back to his college years ... but maybe that should not have. His extreme OCD was unknown to me and the way he even took advantage so completely of this friends and Elie Wiesel shocked me like the first time I......more