A review by ithinktfiam
Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture by Neil Dahlstrom

3.0

An interesting history of the first decades of the 20th Century, when the development of the automobile led to the development of the farm tractor. The problem is the writer is a historian and loves his subject but isn't really a writer. There's way too much detail about models from smaller competitors when more was needed about the business and political environments. In addition, it ends a few years too soon. The tractor wars aren't really settled and it doesn't describe how Deer and International Harvester really became the two names we hear from these days.