Fortune editor Carol Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles published in Fortune magazine between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major article, supplying context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett's investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy,...

It was a time of unregulated madness at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Leo Koretz, a lawyer from Chicago, enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. Leo vanished when his scheme finally collapsed in 1923.