THE SNOWBALL is the much anticipated book recounting with intimate detail the life experience and life-wisdom of the man known as "The Oracle of Omaha": Warren Buffett. Though writers have penned thousands of pages about Mr. Buffett and his extraordinary gifts as a businessman and investor, THE SNOWBALL offers an unprecedented portrait of Buffett's life, of his values and his strategies, of his total experiences—all of which combine to tell a great American story.

PART ONE / The Bubble

1: The Less Flattering Version

2: Sun Valley

3: Creatures of Habit

4: Warren, What's Wrong?

PART TWO / The Inner Scorecard

5: The Urge to Preach

6: The Bathtub Steeplechase

7: Armistice Day

8: A Thousand Ways

9: Inky Fingers

10: True Crime Stories

11: Pudgy She Was Not

12: Silent Sales

13: The Rules of the Racetrack

14: The Elephant

15: The Interview

16: Strike One

17: Mount Everest

18: Miss Nebraska

19: Stage Fright

PART THREE / The Racetrack

20: Graham-Newman

21: The Side to Play

22: Hidden Splendor

23: The Omaha Club

24: The Locomotive

25: The Windmill War

26: Haystacks of Gold

27: Folly

28: Dry Tinder

29: What a Worsted Is

30: Jet Jack

31: The Scaffold Sways the Future

32: Easy, Safe, Profitable, and Pleasant

33: The Unwinding

PART FOUR / SusieSings

34: Candy Harry

35: The Sun

36: Two Drowned Rats

37: Newshound

38: Spaghetti Western

39: The Giant

40: How Not to Run a Public Library

41: And Then What?

42: Blue Ribbon

PART FIVE / The King of Wall Stre

43: Pharaoh

44: Rose

45: Call the Tow Truck

46: Rubicon

47: White Nights

48: Thumb-Sucking, and Its Hollow-Cheeked Result

49: The Angry Gods

50: The Lottery

51: To Hell with the Bear

52: Chickenfeed

PART SIX / Claim Checks

53: The Genie

54: Semicolon

55: The Last Kay Party

56: By the Rich, for the Rich

57: Oracle

58: Buffetted

59: Winter

60: Frozen Coke

61: The Seventh Fire

62: Claim Checks

Afterword

Notes

A Personal Note About Research

Photo Credits and Permissions

Acknowledgments

Index