Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger

by Lowe, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780471244738
• ISBN10: 0471244732
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-30
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"Janet Lowe's unprecedented access to Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett has resulted in a first-class book that investors, academics, and CEOs will find entertaining and highly useful."-TIMOTHY P. VICK, Money Manager and Author of How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett

Author Biography

JANET LOWE is an investment writer and author who has written several business and biographical works, including the recent bestseller Warren Buffett Speaks (from Wiley). Ms. Lowe is past editor of the San Diego Daily Transcript and financial editor of the San Diego Tribune. More than 200 of her business articles have appeared in such publications as Newsweek, the Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Table of Contents

An Extraordinary Combination of Minds	1	(8)
The Lake---A Place That Defines Munger	9	(10)
The Nebraskans	19	(14)
Surviving the Wars	33	(14)
Putting Together a New Life	47	(13)
Munger Makes His First Million	60	(12)
A Combination of Big Ideas	72	(8)
Pound-for-Pound, the Best Law Firm	80	(12)
Operating Wheeler, Munger Out of a Utility Room	92	(18)
Blue Chip Stamps	110	(13)
See's Candy Teaches a Lesson	123	(12)
The Belous Case	135	(6)
The Buffalo Evening News	141	(8)
Charlie Munger Goes to War with the Savings and Loan Industry	149	(15)
The Blossoming of Berkshire Hathaway	164	(12)
Berkshire in the 1990s - Power Building	176	(13)
Salomon Brothers	189	(14)
The Daily Journal Corporation-A Modest Media Empire	203	(12)
Doing Good at Good Samaritan Hospital	215	(12)
Elder Statesman and Conscience of the Investment World	227	(13)
A Time to Reap Rewards	240	(11)
Appendix A Wheeler, Munger Partnership	251	(1)
Appendix B Interview List	252	(1)
Appendix C Time Line-The Life and Career of Charles T. Munger	253	(4)
Appendix D Charles T. Munger's Speeches	257	(20)
Notes	277	(12)
Index	289