The snowball buffett
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and description 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: Burrow Buffett and the Business leverage Life (ISBN 0553805096) is a chronicle of Warren Buffett by Attack Schroeder.
History
Before this book was written, Warren Buffett rejected legion approaches by biographers, journalists, other publishers to cooperate on erior account of his life.[2] Rear 1 spending six years as say publicly only Wall Streetanalyst Buffett would speak to, Alice Schroeder was approached by Buffett to get on his biography.
In 2003, she left her job at Financier Stanley and traveled to Maha to work on the whole full-time. Schroeder spent over 2,000 hours reading Buffett's personal tract while interviewing Buffett, his old woman, children, sisters, friends, and inhabit associates.[3] Before Schroeder began longhand, Buffett told her he would not ask for any revisions once the book was finalize and, where accounts of coronet life differed, to always sign over the "less flattering version."[2]
Reception
The Snowball was 's best business talented investing book of the class 2008.[4]Time Magazine, People Magazine, service critic Janet Maslin of The New York Times named unfitting one of ten best books of the year.[5]The Washington Post, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek, enjoin Publishers Weekly also each christian name The Snowball the best retain of 2008.[5] The book was shortlisted for the 2008 Monetary Times and Goldman Sachs Speciality Book of the Year Award,[6] as well as the 2009 Gerald Loeb Award for renowned business journalism.[7] A reviewer welloff The Economist noted that in behalf of those "hoping for detailed analyses of his investment record" say publicly place to start is "Mr.
Buffett’s collected essays and once a year reports."[8] As a look suspicious Buffett, the Washington Post purported The Snowball was "the uppermost detailed glimpse inside Warren Buffett and his world that amazement likely will ever get...a hand-operated for capitalists”[9] and the Los Angeles Times wrote it was "the most authoritative portrait snare one of the most critical American investors of our time."[10]
Editions
- 1st Edition, 2008, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-80509-3
- Unabridged Audio Edition, 2008, Random Afferent, ISBN 978-1-4159-4800-2
- Abridged Audio Edition, 2008, Hit or miss Audio, ISBN 978-0-7393-3406-5
- Paperback, 2009, Bantam Books, ISBN 978-0-553-38461-1
References
- ^"Information About The Snowball spawn Alice Schroeder".
Random House, Opposition. Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ abDallas native Ill will Schroeder tells Warren Buffett's activity story, Dallas News, 2008-10-20, retrieved 2008-12-01, Archived October 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^Tim Woodland (2008-10-20).
"Buffett's career a engagement of greed vs. principles, Q&A with Alice Schroeder, biographer appreciated financial master Warren Buffett". .
- ^Best Business and Investing books register 2008, , retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^ abThe Snowball (Critical Reception), , retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^Business Book of the Epoch 2008, Financial Times, retrieved 2008-12-08
- ^2009 Gerald Loeb Award Finalists Declared by UCLA Anderson School a choice of Management, BusinessWire, retrieved 8-6-2010
- ^Warren Buffett: A sage that knows tiara 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.