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Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012: A Fortune Magazine Book
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December 2012
On Sale: November 21, 2012
368 pages
ISBN: 1591845734
EAN: 9781591845737
Kindle: B007ZHC95K
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Non-Fiction Biography
Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something
remarkable— and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a
front-row seat for it all.
When Carol
Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund
manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream
that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s
greatest investor—nor that she and Buffett would quickly
become close personal friends. As Buffett’s fortune and
reputation grew over time, Loomis used her unique insight
into Buffett’s thinking to chronicle his work for
Fortune, writing and proposing scores of stories
that tracked his many accomplishments—and also his
occasional mistakes.
Now Loomis has collected
and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune
published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen
cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett
himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major
article that supplies context and her own informed point of
view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett’s
investment strategies and his thinking on management,
philanthropy, public policy, and even parenting. Some of the
highlights include:
- The 1966 A. W. Jones
story in which Fortune first mentioned Buffett.
- The first piece Buffett wrote for the magazine,
1977’s “How Inf lation Swindles the Equity Investor.”
- Andrew Tobias’s 1983 article “Letters from Chairman
Buffett,” the first review of his Berkshire Hathaway
shareholder letters.
- Buffett’s stunningly
prescient 2003 piece about derivatives, “Avoiding a
Mega-Catastrophe.”
- His unconventional thoughts
on inheritance and philanthropy, including his intention to
leave his kids “enough money so they would feel they could
do anything, but not so much that they could do
nothing.”
- Bill Gates’s 1996 article describing
his early impressions of Buffett as they struck up their
close friendship.
Scores of Buffett books have been
written, but none can claim this work’s combination of trust
between two friends, the writer’s deep understanding of
Buffett’s world, and a very long-term perspective.
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