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Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist

Roger Lowenstein

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Summary

Roger Lowenstein traces Warren Buffett’s life and investing career, drawing on access to family, friends and colleagues. He explores the relationship between Buffett’s personality and his long-term approach to buying companies and shares. The biography follows both the public investor and the private person behind that reputation.

  • SourceRandom House: Buffett · Publisher description; exact ISBN; originally published August 1995

Why read it Our view

Useful for examining patience and independent judgment in business. Lowenstein connects Buffett’s choices to his temperament, giving readers a way to study how a working style shapes decisions over time.

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    Lowenstein examines Buffett’s life, investing career and long-term approach.
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