First published 2014
Howard Buffett seems destined for privilege as Warren Buffett's eldest son. At fourteen, he ignores his mother's protests and travels alone to Prague under Soviet occupation, staying with a friend for a month. The experience transforms his understanding of hunger and global suffering. He discovers his true calling lies in agriculture, not finance. Howard never completes college but rents farmland from his father to start his farming journey. Through decades of agricultural investment, he creates opportunities worth forty times his initial stake. Howard recounts his father's life principles and their family's hidden history while revealing how the Buffett investment philosophy shaped his own path. His story explores the tension between inherited expectations and personal passion, showing how one month in occupied Prague redirected a life toward the soil rather than the stock market.
Genres: family-life, 20th-century, business, agriculture, biography-memoir, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, personal-passion
Setting: Prague, Soviet Union
Period: 20th Century, 21st Century
200 pages · Paperback · CITIC Publishing House