to £ancasl«r 'farming readers ANDY ANDREWS Editor THE NEW IMPERIALISTS, by Mark Leibovich. Prentice Hall Press, 2002, 249 pp., $25.00. ISBN 0-7352-0317-2 Mark Leibovich, national tech nology reporter for The Washing ton Post, looks at how “five rest less kids grew up to virtually rule your world,” according to the dust jacket of this semi-biogra 100% MONEY BACK GUARANTEE! WE ARE SO CONFIDENT THAT YOU'LL LOVE US. WE ARE OFFERING THIS RISK-FREE TRIAL! Yes, that's our great 30-day money back guaranteel If, for any reason, within 30 days you're not happy with our Internet service we'll refund 100% of your money., no questions asked, no explanation needed. We will issue a full refund on your entire purchase price! Call us today and you'll see why thousands of people have joined Chili Tech, America’s Hometown Internet Company! Gip it " r hilt'' toch suppoit, t,‘VPiy turn' 1 phy and semi-commentary, filled with enough anecdotes, presump tions, bias, hard opinion, and brilliance to make it shine on anybody’s farm shelf. The kids Multibillionaire Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Case of AOL, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and John Chambers of Cisco “became the contemporary faces of Capitalist ambition, or arro gance, or both,” noted Leibovich in his introduction. “They were never content to do something so utterly mundane as ‘build’ suc cessful companies. They needed to expand, expand, and expand through the boundlessness of cy berspace and into fresh global markets to find out exactly what they were capable of, what they could get away with, and how far they could go.” The book even has pictures photos of all these guys, these present-day Rockefellers and Camegies and Fords who didn’t build their global financial empires with oil and autos but with that desktop contraption that does just about everything for us. They who literally helped construct the Internet, an actual lifestyle for millions of Ameri cans. You have to remember some things about these guys. One, multibillionaire Gates came from money. According to Leibovich on page 144 in speaking about Gates and Steve Ballmer, Gates’ closest friend and longtime dep uty: “Gates is the great-grandson of the man who founded Seattle’s National City Bank in 1911; Ballmer’s father, a Swiss immi grant who settled his family in the Detroit suburb of Farmington Hills, was a Ford Motor Co. ac countant who began trumpeting his expectation that his son would attend Harvard when the boy was 8.” William Henry Gates 111 “was a boy prodigy horn into a wealthy Unlimited Internet for 9 per month* with al2 month purchase! Seattle family. His father, Wil liam 11, was a prominent corpo rate lawyer; his mother, Mary, was active in local charities and was head of the local United Way Chapter.” So, the rich do get richer. And they strive to be something more than industrialists. They strive to be statesmen. On page 218: “This is a com mon transformation among big ticket technology CEOs. Once they reach a certain level of titan hood, they strive for statesman hood. Bill Gates did, so did In tel’s Andy Grove, Cisco’s John Chambers, and others. They were no longer just hugely successful Capitalists, they were now In dustrialists, posing with world leaders in photos posted on cor porate Websites.” Interestingly, despite all this, Leibovich insists these guys are human, and gives us some of the laundry and you’d be sur prised to learn how much like us these new imperialists are. It’s just that their problems are bil lion-dollar problems that, to some people, are no problems at all. HOW TO RESTORE CLASS IC FARM TRACTORS, by Tharran E. Gaines. Voya geur Press, 2002, 256 pp., $29.95. ISBN 0-89658-455-0 Author Gaines, with more than 20 years of ag writing experience, researched far and wide into this, tagged the “ultimate do-it-your self guide to rebuilding and re storing tractors.” Indeed, it is. It’s a big, beauti ful, colorful, well documented, well-researched, and absolutely complete book. The author points out special thanks are given to Chris and Kim Pratt, who write and edit Yesterday’s Tractors online mag azine (www.ytmag.com). Gaines is careful to point out, with a photo of an Oliver Mode) IT'S SO EASY! You <iap sign-up online, 24 hours a day! Plus, get FREE "chili" tech support l Join today at www.chilitech.com or call toll-free 866-392-4454 a chllitoch pdwcrko » E AMERICA'S HOMETOWN INTERNET COMPANY!* Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 27, 2002-815 88 Row Crop on page 39, that “before you get started, you’ll need to establish your goals.” Will you restore it as a work trac tor or show tractor? Do you want the engine and transmission to be like new, or can you “live with something like a missing gear tooth 1 ? The book is a step-by-step guide to reworking the entire en gine and all the parts, repairing the metal body, restoring all the individual parts (and we mean all , including parts you thought couldn’t even exist on a simple tractor), and repainting and de tailing. There are charts. Just for ex ample, Gaines lists charts of spark plugs and how to substi tute them from current manufac turers (page 90) or charts on paint codes necessary to match the tractors of yesteryear (page 215). The book ripples with color photos, lots and lots of photos, of vintage and collectible tractors from all manufacturers. It also has tractor show demonstrations from around the country. It has lots of stuff, almost too numer ous to mention it’s a book cre ated by love for tractor restora tion that belongs on every farm shelf. LOOK WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH CHILITECH 1 To order: visit your local book shop or go online at amazon.com or b&n.com, or on the Web di rectly from www.voyageurpres s.com. Orders can be mailed with a check or money order payable to Voyageur Press, P.O. Box 338, Stillwater, MN, 55082, with $4.95 shipping and handling per order. Or phone (800) 888-9653. IRON MEMORIES, Vol. 1, Heartland Communications Group, Inc. 2002, 192 pp., $29.95. ISBN 0-9702411-2-7 Biographies are fun to read. But these biographies compila tions of testimony about restoring long-loved tractors are a real treat. IRON MEMORIES, according to the editors, provides “a tale of rural life seen through the eyes of our fellow farmers, ranchers, and equipment enthusiasts.” The sto ries are arranged in a collage, and include restorations ranging from a 1959 John Deere 730 Die sel Standard to a 1962 Minneapo lis Moline G 704. Dan Peterman even contributes a guide to esti mating restoration costs as well as a“how to” on restoring a trac tor.
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