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The vivid picture Maier draws of his boss from hell, however, is consistent with Cramer's account. "I had broken enough furniture and monitors and keyboards to last a lifetime," Cramer writes. It's no contest whose book is better: Cramer's, once you get past the bluster. Did he really memorize every closing price on the New York exchange? Cramer offers the best accounts I've read of how pros pay huge trading commissions to brokerage firms in return for the first call on stock-moving events like an analyst downgrade. New sec rules don't stop that or other ploys. And, it seems, nothing stops Cramer.