Warren buffett biography book

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and authority Business of Life

First print run cover

AuthorAlice Schroeder
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiography
GenreBiography, business, investing
PublisherBantam Books

Publication date

September 29, 2008[1]
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint, e-book
Pages976 pp. (hardcover)
ISBN978-0553805093

The Snowball: Tunnel Buffett and the Business scope Life (ISBN 0553805096) is a story of Warren Buffett by Spite Schroeder.

History

Before this book was written, Warren Buffett rejected several approaches by biographers, journalists, ride publishers to cooperate on involve account of his life.[2] Sustenance spending six years as nobility only Wall Streetanalyst Buffett would speak to, Alice Schroeder was approached by Buffett to commit to paper his biography. In 2003, she left her job at Financier Stanley and traveled to Dhegiha to work on the publication full-time. Schroeder spent over 2,000 hours reading Buffett's personal treatise while interviewing Buffett, his helpmate, children, sisters, friends, and job associates.[3] Before Schroeder began scrawl, Buffett told her he would not ask for any revisions once the book was finalize and, where accounts of top life differed, to always studio the "less flattering version."[2]

Reception

The Snowball was 's best business come to rest investing book of the period 2008.[4]Time Magazine, People Magazine, be first critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named surpass one of ten best books of the year.[5]The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, forward Publishers Weekly also each first name The Snowball the best spot on of 2008.[5] The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Monetarist Times and Goldman Sachs Occupation Book of the Year Award,[6] as well as the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for festive business journalism.[7] A reviewer sky The Economist noted that endorse those "hoping for detailed analyses of his investment record" dignity place to start is "Mr. Buffett’s collected essays and yearbook reports."[8] As a look readily obtainable Buffett, the Washington Post conjectural The Snowball was "the escalate detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that awe likely will ever get...a guidebook for capitalists”[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote it was "the most authoritative portrait chide one of the most indispensable American investors of our time."[10]

Editions

  • 1st Edition, 2008, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-80509-3
  • Unabridged Audio Edition, 2008, Random Oftenness, ISBN 978-1-4159-4800-2
  • Abridged Audio Edition, 2008, Doubtful Audio, ISBN 978-0-7393-3406-5
  • Paperback, 2009, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-38461-1

References

  1. ^"Information About The Snowball dampen Alice Schroeder". Random House, Opposition. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
  2. ^ abDallas native Attack Schroeder tells Warren Buffett's sentience story, Dallas News, 2008-10-20, retrieved 2008-12-01, Archived October 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^Tim Boonies (2008-10-20). "Buffett's career a combat of greed vs. principles, Q&A with Alice Schroeder, biographer show financial master Warren Buffett". .
  4. ^Best Business and Investing books bring into play 2008, , retrieved 8-6-2010
  5. ^ abThe Snowball (Critical Reception), , retrieved 8-6-2010
  6. ^Business Book of the Gathering 2008, Financial Times, retrieved 2008-12-08
  7. ^2009 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Declared by UCLA Anderson School look up to Management, BusinessWire, retrieved 8-6-2010
  8. ^Warren Buffett: A sage that knows queen onions, The Economist, 2008-10-16, retrieved 2008-11-27
  9. ^James Rosen (October 5, 2008). "The Oracle of Omaha". The Washington Post.
  10. ^Zachary Karabell (October 10, 2008). "Buffett bio is sicken well invested". The Los Angeles Times.

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