Books, Business & Investing, Biography & History, Captains of Industry

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Alice Schroeder
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
by Bantam (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-29)

Here is THE book recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in the world, Warren Buffett. The legendary Omaha investor has never written a memoir, but now he has allowed one writer, Alice Schroeder, unprecedented access to explore directly with him and with those closest to him his work, opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies, and wisdom. The result is the personally revealing and complete biography of the man known everywhere as “The Oracle of Omaha.”Although the media track him constantly, Buffett himself has never told his full life story. His reality is private, especially by celebrity standards. Indeed, while the homespun persona that the public sees is true as far as it goes, it goes only so far. Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker. At the ...

Ted Turner, Bill Burke
Call Me Ted
by Grand Central Publishing (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-11-10)

"Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise!" These words of fatherly advice helped shape Ted Turner's remarkable life, but they only begin to explain the colorful, energetic, and unique style that has made Ted into one of the most amazing personalities of our time. Along the way - among his numerous accomplishments -- Ted became one of the richest men in the world, the largest land owner in the United States, revolutionized the television business with the creation of TBS and CNN, became a champion sailor and winner of the America's Cup, and took home a World Series championship trophy in 1995 as owner of the Atlanta Braves. An innovative entrepreneur, outspoken nonconformist, and groundbreaking philanthropist, Ted Turner is truly a living legend, and now, for the first time, he reveals his personal story. From his difficult childhood to the successful launch of his media empire to the catastrophic AOL/Time Warner deal, Turner spares no details or feelings and ...

John C. Bogle
Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life
by Wiley (Hardcover)

Michael Lewis
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street
by Penguin (Non-Classics) (Paperback)

In fiction there was Bonfire of the Vanities; in reality, there is Liar's Poker--the fascinating insider's account of what really happens on Wall Street. This irreverent and hilarious birds-eye view of Wall Street's heyday will appeal to anyone intrigued by the allure of million dollar deals. Now in trade paper. First serial to Manhattan Inc.

Tilar J. Mazzeo
The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
by Collins Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-10-28)

John Perkins
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
by Plume (Paperback)

Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
The Millionaire Next Door
by Pocket (Paperback)

T. Boone Pickens
The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future
by Crown Business (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-09-02)

With a Plan for Reducing U.S. Oil DependencyIt’s never too late to top your personal best.Now eighty years old, T. Boone Pickens is a legendary figure in the business world. Known as the “Oracle of Oil” because of his uncanny ability to predict the direction of fuel prices, he built Mesa Petroleum, one of the largest independent oil companies in the United States, from a $2,500 investment. In the 1980s, Pickens became a household name when he executed a series of unsolicited buyout bids for undervalued oil companies, in the process reinventing the notion of shareholders’ rights. Even his failures were successful in that they forced risk-averse managers to reconsider the way they did business.When Pickens left Mesa at age sixty-eight after a spectacular downward spiral in the company’s profits, many counted him out. Indeed, what followed for him was a painful divorce, clinical depression, a temporary inability to predict the movement of energy prices, and the loss of 90 ...

Edwin Lefevre
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
by Cosimo, Inc. (Paperback)

Michael Wolff
The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
by Broadway (Hardcover) (Release Date: 2008-12-02)

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