Charlie Munger: The Biography by University Press
Thank you University Press for providing an advanced copy of this short biography of Charlie Munger. This review expresses my own personal opinion. I have not been asked to post it by the author, University Press, or anyone connected with the book or author. This is a quick read about the life of Charlie Munger, one of the most influential financial wizards in the world today. If you are interested in how the Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate got to where it is today and what makes it so successful, then you have to know the men behind it and Munger is the other part of the fantastic duo. Many successful people have a right-hand person, their wing-person so to speak; General Ulysses S. Grant had William Tecumseh Sherman, Jimmy Carter had Rosalyn Carter, and Warren Buffett has Charlie Munger. Surprisingly, the book points out, Munger did not start out in finance, far from it. After serving a stint in the army, as a meteorologist, he followed in his father’s and grandfathe...