The snowball : Warren Buffett and the business of life

Part 1. The bubble: The less flattering version -- Sun Valley -- Creatures of habit -- Warren, what's wrong? -- Part 2. The inner scorecard: The urge to preach -- The bathtub steeplechase -- Armistice Day -- A thousand ways -- Inky fingers -- True crime stories -- Pudgy she was not -- Silent sales -- The rules of the racetrack -- The elephant -- The interview -- Strike one -- Mount Everest -- Miss Nebraska -- Stage fright -- Part 3. The racetrack: Graham-Newman -- The side to play -- Hidden splendor -- The Omaha Club -- The locomotive -- The windmill war -- Haystacks of gold -- Folly -- Dry tinder -- What a worsted is -- Jet Jack -- The scaffold sways the future -- Easy, safe, profitable, and pleasant -- The unwinding -- Part 4. Susie sings: Candy Harry -- The Sun -- Two drowned rats -- Newshound -- Spaghetti western -- The giant -- How not to run a public library -- And then what? -- Blue ribbon -- Part 5. The king of Wall Street: Pharaoh -- Rose -- Call the tow truck -- Rubicon -- White nights -- Thumb-sucking, and its hollow-cheeked result -- The angry gods -- The lottery -- To hell with the bear -- Chickenfeed -- Part 6. Claim checks: The genie -- Semicolon -- The last Kay party -- By the rich, for the rich -- Oracle -- Buffetted -- Winter -- Frozen Coke -- The seventh fire -- Claim checks -- Afterword -- Notes -- A personal note about research -- Photo credits and permissions -- Acknowledgments -- Index.