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Buffett: The Biography
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the making of an American capitalist
Roger Lowenstein
‘Mr. Lowenstein has done a masterly job.’
The New York Times Book Review
‘Only in America. The bonus of this fine, fine biography is that it could turn you into an investor, if you're not one already; or a better one, if you are. Lowenstein has done a great job with a great subject.’
Andrew Tobias, author of The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need
‘… superb’
James Pressley, Sydney Morning Herald
‘A brilliant biography studded with insights in to the philosophy of Warren Buffett, a wizard at investing and a very complicated fellow.’
Dick Victory, The Washingtonian
‘Other books have been written about Warren Buffett and his investment strategy, but this is the one to read.’
Bill Gates, Harvard Business Review
Starting from scratch, simply by picking stocks and companies for investment, Warren Buffett amassed one of the epochal fortunes of the twentieth century — an astounding net worth of US$62 billion, and counting. His awesome investment recor
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Want a real bio of Warren Buffett? You'll have to keep waiting, because this book ain't it.
This baby's got some major boo-boos in just the first 50 pages. (But there's more later!) Add in overwriting, poor writing, and apparently economic slants or ax-grinding and ugg
First, the early errors:
1. She claims Hoover was Coolidge's VP. Nope, twas Charles Curtis.
2. She claims some other speech, not "Cross of Gold," was William Jennings Bryan's most famous. Not even close.
3. A possible whopper. On page 17, she describes the "notoriously fumble fingered Buffett" trying to "get up" a PowerPoint slide as if it were an actual slide Dunno if she believes that, but it halfway sounds that way.
And, as I said, that's just in the first FIFTY pages.
Biggest of the later errors?
Page , Schroeder says the Taoiseach is "head of state" of Ireland.
NOPE. Try "head of government," not "head of state." And, in a parliamentary government, that's a big difference.
She also appears to take some Dust Bowl yarns as truth.
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Economic ax-grinding? Claiming that going off the gold standard, specifically, Great Britain in , is just an "excuse to write bad checks."
So, Ms. Goldbug, you still