TheSnowball

Praise for THE SNOWBALL “Even people who don’t care a whit about business will be intrigued by this portrait.… Schroeder, a former insurance-industry analyst, spent years interviewing Buffett, and the result is a side of the Oracle of Omaha that has rarely been seen.” —Time “Alice Schroeder’s accumulation of detail, her vivid, artless descriptions of people and places, and the resulting narrative fluidity make this a compelling book. It has the bouncing vitality of an early Sinclair Lewis novel.” —The Times Literary Supplement “The Snowball is likely to remain the most authoritative portrait of one of the most important American investors of our time.” —Los Angeles Times “In this startlingly frank account of Buffett’s life, Schroeder, a former managing director at Morgan Stanley—and hand picked by Buffett to be his biographer—strips away the mystery that has long cloaked the world’s richest man to reveal a life and fortune erected around lucid and inspired business vision and unimaginable personal complexity.” —Publishers Weekly “An instructive chronicle of financial success at a moment when financial failure is on everyone’s......