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Buffett : the making of an American capitalist / Roger Lowenstein.

Title
Buffett : the making of an American capitalist / Roger Lowenstein.
Author
Lowenstein, Roger.
Publication
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2008.

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Description
xv, 482 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 21 cm.
Summary
Chronicles Warren Buffett's childhood ambitions, Columbia Business School education, investment strategies, early investments, and affiliation with American Express, Berkshire Hathaway, and ABC.
Subject
  • Buffett, Warren
  • Capitalists and financiers > United States > Biography
  • Stockbrokers > United States > Biography
Genre/Form
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
Note
  • "With a new afterword by the author"--Cover.
  • "Originally published in hardcover and in slightly different form in the United States by Random House...in 1995"--Verso, t.p.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-467) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Omaha -- Runaway -- Graham -- Beginnings -- Partners -- Go-go -- Berkshire Hathaway -- Return of the native -- Alter ego -- Washington redux -- Press lord -- Partners, redux -- The carpet women -- The eighties -- Public and private -- Crash -- A brief introduction to darts -- Secrets of the temple -- Howie Buffett's corn -- Rhinophobia -- The king -- Salomon's court -- Buffett's trolley -- Afterword: January 2008.
ISBN
  • 9780812979275 (pbk.)
  • 0812979273 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 226388764
  • SCSB-10793696
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library