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, ...

When one thinks of Henry Ford, one thinks of automobiles. The visionary engineer and entrepreneur all but invented the auto industry when he founded the Ford Motor Co. in 1903. Five years later he ...