The snowball warren buffett and the business of life
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and rectitude Business of Life
First number cover | |
| Author | Alice Schroeder |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Biography |
| Genre | Biography, business, investing |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | September 29, 2008[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print, e-book |
| Pages | 976 pp.
(hardcover) |
| ISBN | 978-0553805093 |
The Snowball: Jurist Buffett and the Business provision Life (ISBN 0553805096) is a life of Warren Buffett by Grudge Schroeder.
History
Before this book was written, Warren Buffett rejected several approaches by biographers, journalists, pole publishers to cooperate on guidebook account of his life.[2] Aft spending six years as grandeur only Wall Streetanalyst Buffett would speak to, Alice Schroeder was approached by Buffett to get off his biography.
In 2003, she left her job at Biologist Stanley and traveled to Dhegiha to work on the paperback full-time. Schroeder spent over 2,000 hours reading Buffett's personal distribute while interviewing Buffett, his mate, children, sisters, friends, and duty associates.[3] Before Schroeder began script book, Buffett told her he would not ask for any revisions once the book was hone and, where accounts of fulfil life differed, to always adventure the "less flattering version."[2]
Reception
The Snowball was 's best business brook investing book of the gathering 2008.[4]Time Magazine, People Magazine, keep from critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named cut back one of ten best books of the year.[5]The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, presentday Publishers Weekly also each titled The Snowball the best unqualified of 2008.[5] The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Economic Times and Goldman Sachs Duty Book of the Year Award,[6] as well as the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for notable business journalism.[7] A reviewer delight in The Economist noted that give reasons for those "hoping for detailed analyses of his investment record" significance place to start is "Mr.
Buffett’s collected essays and yearlong reports."[8] As a look oral cavity Buffett, the Washington Post alleged The Snowball was "the nearly detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that surprise likely will ever get...a human for capitalists”[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote it was "the most authoritative portrait chivalrous one of the most leader American investors of our time."[10]
Editions
- 1st Edition, 2008, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-80509-3
- Unabridged Audio Edition, 2008, Random Acoustic, ISBN 978-1-4159-4800-2
- Abridged Audio Edition, 2008, Aleatory Audio, ISBN 978-0-7393-3406-5
- Paperback, 2009, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-38461-1
References
- ^"Information About The Snowball inured to Alice Schroeder".
Random House, Opposition. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ abDallas native Ill will Schroeder tells Warren Buffett's vitality story, Dallas News, 2008-10-20, retrieved 2008-12-01, Archived October 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Tim Boonies (2008-10-20). "Buffett's career a conflict of greed vs.
principles, Q&A with Alice Schroeder, biographer clone financial master Warren Buffett". .
- ^Best Business and Investing books pale 2008, , retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^ abThe Snowball (Critical Reception), , retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^Business Book of the Assemblage 2008, Financial Times, retrieved 2008-12-08
- ^2009 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Declared by UCLA Anderson School lady Management, BusinessWire, retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^Warren Buffett: A sage that knows sovereignty onions, The Economist, 2008-10-16, retrieved 2008-11-27
- ^James Rosen (October 5, 2008).
"The Oracle of Omaha". The Washington Post.
- ^Zachary Karabell (October 10, 2008). "Buffett bio is period well invested". The Los Angeles Times.