The Snowball
Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Alice Schroeder
Published By: Bantam Books, 2008
Genre: Nonfiction | Biography & Memoir,
Page Count: 960 (Hardcover)
Audiobook Length: 37 hours
Audiobook Narrator: Kirsten Potter
ISBN: 9780553805093
Publisher’s Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller!
THE SNOWBALL is the much-anticipated book recounting with intimate detail the life experience and life wisdom of the man known as “The Oracle of Omaha”: Warren Buffett. Though writers have penned thousands of pages about Mr. Buffett and his extraordinary gifts as a businessman and investor, THE SNOWBALL offers an unprecedented portrait of Buffett’s life, his values and his strategies, of his total experiences—all of which combine to tell a great American story.
Unlike any book ever written about Mr. Buffett or derived from his words, this book will be both a life story and a biography of ideas.
About the Author
Alice Schroeder was a noted insurance industry analyst and writer who was a managing director at Morgan Stanley. She first met Warren Buffett when she published research on Berkshire Hathaway; her grasp of the subject and insight so impressed him that he offered her access to his files and to himself. Their friendship and mutual respect make her ideally positioned to write THE SNOWBALL.
Ms. Schroeder was born in Texas, and she earned an undergraduate degree and her MBA at the University of Texas at Austin before moving east to work in finance. She is a former CPA and lives in Connecticut with her husband.