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The Oracle of San Quentin
How Curtis ‘Wall Street’ Carroll Taught Himself to Read, Found the Stock Market by Mistake, and Counted Down Twenty-Seven Years to the Gate
He walked into prison unable to read. He walked out twenty-seven years later as the man other prisoners, and some of the guards, asked about their money.
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About the book
From a prison cell to “Wall Street”
Curtis Carroll grew up in East Oakland and was arrested for murder at seventeen. He went to prison unable to read. Inside, he taught himself, page by page, until the newspaper's financial pages put the stock market in front of him. He didn't know what he was looking at. He decided to find out.
What followed made him known as “Wall Street”: a self-taught investor running a financial-literacy class inside San Quentin, a TED talk recorded behind the walls, and a long countdown to the gate that included setbacks of his own making. The Oracle of San Quentin tells that story in his voice, from the first word he sounded out to the morning he walked free.
It's a book about literacy as a way out, about money as something you're taught or kept from, and about whether a man can become someone the worst thing he did doesn't fully describe.
About the author
Huruy Kidanemariam
Huruy is a senior UX designer in Los Angeles and the founder of Appfinity Labs, an independent product studio. He builds products that remove a barrier for the people using them. This is his first book, written from Curtis Carroll's public interviews and the reporting around his life.
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