Two Degrees of Separation

The internet is so cool.

Earlier this week over at Inside Catholic and the Register blog, I mentioned Norman Borlaug, the Father of the Green Revolution and the Man Who Saved a Billion Lives.

Within a few hours I got two emails. One was from a guy who works with Borlaug’s daughter. The other was from this guy:

During 25 years of working with Norm Borlaug I wrote down some 300 of the personal dramas that are behind his success. You’ll not believe the reality of what went on. It’s a lesson on what it takes to feed hungry nations.

So far, I’ve published two volumes (200 dramas). The first shows the amazing coincidences that got him off a subsistence farm near an Iowa village where Norwegian was spoken and got him all the way through to solving microbiological horrors facing US forces during WWII.

In Volume 2 he heads for Mexico, a novice who’s never worked on a food crop, let alone humanity’s top crop. Fifteen years later, after immense travail and having inadvertently angered virtually every authority figure (including his bosses) he’s lifted Mexico’s wheat production 14 fold. The farmers are so grateful they’ve built him the world’s best agricultural research station (after those bosses in the world’s richest foundation refused to upgrade the decrepit facilities he’d been forced to endure).

If you’d like copies of the books, let me know. They’re generating reader raves. High schools in four states are using Volume 1 as a classroom text. I hope to expand on that and pass on Norm’s inspiration to new generations ad infinitum.

The books are available through me for half price ($10.00) plus $6.50 shipping. They’re also on Amazon and my website:

Regards

Noel Vietmeyer

Order the books and you will be two degrees of separation from one of the greatest men who ever lived.