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Monday, August 20, 2012

Book Review: 'Einstein of Money' details life of Buffett's mentor

Thanks to Lincoln for passing this along.

Benjamin Graham— the financial wiz who taught Warren Buffet[t] to invest — was not unduly interested in money himself.

Graham was a true intellectual — excited by math, languages and classic texts.

And women.

Although he was so honest that he repaid all his investors for their losses during the Great Depression, Graham was a thrice-married philanderer and an absentee dad.

He had so many affairs that Joe Carlen uses the word "swinger" to describe his sex life in a new biography, The Einstein of Money.

Graham divorced his first wife in 1937, when divorce was still socially unacceptable, leaving his four children stigmatized.

The next year, he married a young actress.

Next up, he married his young secretary.

Eventually, he took up with a Frenchwoman who was introduced as the former lover of his own deceased son.

All the while, the rest of Graham's life was the stuff of inspirational kids' books:

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Book: Einstein of Money: The Life and Timeless Financial Wisdom of Benjamin Graham
Joe at 8/20/2012
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