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Review: The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder

By Daniel Wahl

Aug 20, 2009
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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, by Alice Schroeder. New York: Bantam, 2008. 976 pp. $35 (cloth).

Nine-year-old Warren Buffett is in his yard playing in the snow.

Warren is catching snowflakes. One at a time at first. Then he is scooping them up by handfuls. He starts to pack them into a ball. As the snowball grows bigger, he places …

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