Warren Buffett: The Early Years

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Sep 30, 2008
Part Three of The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life takes readers from the early 1950s and his work with Ben Graham and his marriage to Susie through the late 1960s, when he moves to dissolve his own investing partnership. Along the way, his revered father Howard died, he and Susie had three kids of their own, and his wealth grew to $9 million.


Driven by his monastic dedication to the market and amassing wealth, he bought a battered textile maker (Berkshire Hathaway), a troubled retailer, and even dabbled in publishing.


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