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The snowball : Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder.
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- ISBN: 9780553805093 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: xi, 960 p., 32 p. of plates : ill. (photos) ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, c2008.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [839]-928) and index. |
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| Subject: | Buffett, Warren. Capitalists and financiers > United States > Biography. Investments > United States. |
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Table of Contents
The Snowball : Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Part 1 | The Bubble | p. 1 |
| 1 | The Less Flattering Version | p. 3 |
| 2 | Sun Valley | p. 5 |
| 3 | Creatures of Habit | p. 24 |
| 4 | Warren, What's Wrong? | p. 31 |
| Part 2 | The Inner Scorecard | p. 35 |
| 5 | The Urge to Preach | p. 37 |
| 6 | The Bathtub Steeplechase | p. 44 |
| 7 | Armistice Day | p. 53 |
| 8 | A Thousand Ways | p. 59 |
| 9 | Inky Fingers | p. 66 |
| 10 | True Crime Stories | p. 86 |
| 11 | Pudgy She Was Not | p. 89 |
| 12 | Silent Sales | p. 96 |
| 13 | The Rules of the Racetrack | p. 105 |
| 14 | The Elephant | p. 110 |
| 15 | The Interview | p. 123 |
| 16 | Strike One | p. 129 |
| 17 | Mount Everest | p. 139 |
| 18 | Miss Nebraska | p. 151 |
| 19 | Stage Fright | p. 163 |
| Part 3 | The Racetrack | p. 175 |
| 20 | Graham-Newman | p. 177 |
| 21 | The Side to Play | p. 190 |
| 22 | Hidden Splendor | p. 200 |
| 23 | The Omaha Club | p. 22 |
| 24 | The Locomotive | p. 229 |
| 25 | The Windmill War | p. 242 |
| 26 | Haystacks of Gold | p. 247 |
| 27 | Folly | p. 263 |
| 28 | Dry Tinder | p. 278 |
| 29 | What a Worsted Is | p. 287 |
| 30 | Jet Jack | p. 294 |
| 31 | The Scaffold Sways the Future | p. 303 |
| 32 | Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant | p. 312 |
| 33 | The Unwinding | p. 321 |
| Part 4 | Susie Sings | p. 337 |
| 34 | Candy Harry | p. 339 |
| 35 | The Sun | p. 352 |
| 36 | Two Drowned Rats | p. 367 |
| 37 | Newshound | p. 375 |
| 38 | Spaghetti Western | p. 387 |
| 39 | The Giant | p. 399 |
| 40 | How Not to Run a Public Library | p. 416 |
| 41 | And Then What? | p. 439 |
| 42 | Blue Ribbon | p. 457 |
| Part 5 | The King of Wall Street | p. 475 |
| 43 | Pharaoh | p. 477 |
| 44 | Rose | p. 490 |
| 45 | Call the Tow Truck | p. 505 |
| 46 | Rubicon | p. 514 |
| 47 | White Nights | p. 543 |
| 48 | Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked Result | p. 562 |
| 49 | The Angry Gods | p. 597 |
| 50 | The Lottery | p. 619 |
| 51 | To Hell with the Bear | p. 647 |
| 52 | Chickenfeed | p. 665 |
| Part 6 | Claim Checks | p. 685 |
| 53 | The Genie | p. 687 |
| 54 | Semicolon | p. 689 |
| 55 | The Last Kay Party | p. 702 |
| 56 | By the Rich, for the Rich | p. 712 |
| 57 | Oracle | p. 730 |
| 58 | Buffetted | p. 752 |
| 59 | Winter | p. 765 |
| 60 | Frozen Coke | p. 773 |
| 61 | The Seventh Fire | p. 786 |
| 62 | Claim Checks | p. 806 |
| Afterword | p. 831 | |
| Notes | p. 839 | |
| A Personal Note About Research | p. 929 | |
| Photo Credits and Permissions | p. 931 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 933 | |
| Index | p. 937 |
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