Once a year, the managers of public companies have to fling open the doors and let the owners in--whether they want to or not. A Weekend with Warren Buffett is an entertaining and insightful look at these companies during this brief period when managers and stockholders convene. Financial writer Randy Cepuch takes the reader from Fayetteville, Arkansas, where 17,000 Wal-Mart employees gather at dawn for a shareholder meeting that is a strange brew of tailgate party, political convention, and old-time revival meeting, to Philadelphia, where he witnesses the famous meeting which aided Michael Eisner's tenure for Disney.

Cepuch witnesses Sandy Weill's last meeting for Citigroup at New York City's Carnegie Hall, and describes what it's like to be perhaps the only person among thousands of Starbucks shareholders who isn't wired on caffeine. This entertaining odyssey is inspired by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway meetings held in each in Omaha, where Warren Buffett speaks candidly about life and business, offering practical investment advice and making sure that shareholders feel like partners (telling one investor, "Between us, we own the largest part of the company"). Chronicling the shareholder meetings of a myriad of companies, A Weekend with Warren Buffett offers a great deal of fun advice, amusing anecdotes and stories, and the perfect inspiration for all shareholders to start taking an active role in their investments.