An unblinking look at Warren Buffett’s life
By Dave
October 6th, 2008 | Leave a comment
“The Oracle of Omaha,” as Warren Buffett is often known, started figuring things out at an early age. A “socially awkward misfit,” as described by biographer Alice Schroeder, Buffett grew up to become a millionaire by age 30 and is widely recognized as one the investment world’s smartest and most successful figures in the world. He is also known to have carried several extramarital affairs over the years (guess the money did enough smooth talking for him).
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder is an expansive (960 pages of expansive) story of Buffett’s remarkable life.
Fox News correspondent James Rosen writes in the Washington Post:
“A former insurance analyst at Morgan Stanley, Schroeder appears to have been hand-picked as Buffett’s Boswell. Though not a trained journalist, she doggedly spent five years interviewing her subject, along with 250 friends, family members and colleagues, and made skillful use of her unfettered access to Buffett’s document vaults. ‘Whenever my version [of events] is different from somebody else’s,’ Buffett advised his biographer, ‘use the less flattering version.’ This Schroeder does, unflinchingly chronicling Buffett’s emotional and financial withholding from his family; his romances outside his marriage (including a long affair with Katharine Graham, the late publisher of The Washington Post, on whose board he serves); and his panic during a 1975-76 brush with the Securities and Exchange Commission (’There’s got to be an indictment in there somewhere,’ fretted one of Buffett’s lawyers, though no charges were brought).”
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