“Mr. Dahlstrom…has written a superb history of the tractor and this long-forgotten period of capitalism in U.S. agriculture. We now know the whole story of when farming, business and the free-market economy diverged, divided and conquered.”
-Michael Taube, Wall Street Journal
Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they competed with hundreds of entrepreneurs, inventors, and industry stalwarts in a forgotten battle to introduce a new technology, the farm tractor.
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“Neil Dahlstrom’s Tractor Wars engagingly tells the story of one of the great business battles of the twentieth century. Anyone interested in business, agriculture, or tractor history will enjoy this great tale, well-told.”
Gary Hoover, Executive Director, American Business History Center
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