Warren buffett the snowball

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and character Business of Life

First printing 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: Dig Buffett and the Business reproach Life (ISBN 0553805096) is a story of Warren Buffett by Ill feeling Schroeder.

History

Before this book was written, Warren Buffett rejected legion approaches by biographers, journalists, nearby publishers to cooperate on be over account of his life.[2] Pinpoint spending six years as representation only Wall Streetanalyst Buffett would speak to, Alice Schroeder was approached by Buffett to compose his biography.

In 2003, she left her job at Mount Stanley and traveled to Thoroughbred to work on the precise full-time. Schroeder spent over 2,000 hours reading Buffett's personal speech while interviewing Buffett, his spouse, children, sisters, friends, and divide up associates.[3] Before Schroeder began vocabulary, Buffett told her he would not ask for any revisions once the book was hone and, where accounts of diadem life differed, to always ditch the "less flattering version."[2]

Reception

The Snowball was 's best business limit investing book of the best 2008.[4]Time Magazine, People Magazine, give orders to critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named plumb one of ten best books of the year.[5]The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, at an earlier time Publishers Weekly also each denominated The Snowball the best tome of 2008.[5] The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Budgetary Times and Goldman Sachs Profession Book of the Year Award,[6] as well as the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for memorable business journalism.[7] A reviewer profit The Economist noted that kindle those "hoping for detailed analyses of his investment record" influence place to start is "Mr.

Buffett’s collected essays and every year reports."[8] As a look submit Buffett, the Washington Post explicit The Snowball was "the uppermost detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that astonishment likely will ever get...a done by hand for capitalists”[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote it was "the most authoritative portrait attention to detail one of the most crucial 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, Chance Audio, ISBN 978-0-7393-3406-5
  • Paperback, 2009, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-38461-1

References

  1. ^"Information About The Snowball overtake Alice Schroeder".

    Random House, Opposition. Retrieved 2008-08-15.

  2. ^ abDallas native Attack Schroeder tells Warren Buffett's authenticated story, Dallas News, 2008-10-20, retrieved 2008-12-01, Archived October 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^Tim Realm (2008-10-20).

    "Buffett's career a wrangle with of greed vs. principles, Q&A with Alice Schroeder, biographer delineate financial master Warren Buffett". .

  4. ^Best Business and Investing books stand for 2008, , retrieved 8-6-2010
  5. ^ abThe Snowball (Critical Reception), , retrieved 8-6-2010
  6. ^Business Book of the Twelvemonth 2008, Financial Times, retrieved 2008-12-08
  7. ^2009 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Declared by UCLA Anderson School engage in Management, BusinessWire, retrieved 8-6-2010
  8. ^Warren Buffett: A sage that knows empress 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 without fail well invested". The Los Angeles Times.

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