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BUFFET: THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN CAPITALIST
BY ROGER LOWENSTEIN
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Some people are driven by a need to spend money; others, by a need to make it. Warren Buffett-the most successful, influential and famous investor in modern history seems to be very much in the latter camp. That drive to make money seems to be the foundation of the billionaire's definitive biography, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist.
Written by Roger Lowenstein, a veteran financial reporter and author of When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, this standout work was a national bestseller when published in 1995 and has remained an MBA 101 standard ever since. For those who have still not yet read it, Random House recently released a new trade paperback edition-complete with an updated afterword in which Lowenstein, who wrote the book without help or hindrance from Buffett, recalls the time he asked him to sign a copy of the biography. In typically guarded style, Buffett merely wrote his name on the opening page and left it...