2009 Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2008, 2009 by Alice Schroeder
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States in slightly different form by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2008.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schroeder, Alice.
The snowball: Warren Buffett and the business of life / Alice Schroeder.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-553-90549-6
1. Buffett, Warren. 2. Capitalists and financiers—United States—
Biography. 3. Investments—United States. I. Title.
HG172.B84S37 2008
332.6092—dc22
[B] 2008017338
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