Just to set the record straight — and who doesn’t want to hike deep into the tall weeds of literary origin? — the sociologist Max Weber didn’t coin the term “elective affinities.” He borrowed it from ...

"Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture" is a new book by Neil Dahlstrom that looks at the behind-the-scenes action of tractor manufacturing ...

The target audience for Neil Dahlstrom’s book “Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester and the Birth of Modern Agriculture” is self-explanatory. I’m not part of it. During my six ...

At one point in America, there were some 160 companies trying to produce a farm tractor. Henry Ford built the Fordson tractor amid reports he wanted to buy John Deere. Those are just two of the many ...

Neil Dahlstrom was gratified to get a great surprise for Thanksgiving this past week. His new book “Tractor Wars” (published last January) was chosen as the Best Book of 2022 in the History-General ...

The story of a bitter fall out between the Ford Motor Company and the Northern Ireland inventor of the modern-day tractor is to be retold by comedian Patrick Kielty in a new documentary. Tractor Wars, ...