Getting Ahead by Dino Cortopassi

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Hard Cover: $35.00 per copy.

An entertaining and inspiring four-generation saga told through engaging personal anecdotes. The story begins in Italy in the late 1800s with the author’s Great-Grandfather breaking out of serfdom and continues with the emigration of Amerigo Cortopassi in 1921. Like immigrant contemporary’s during the Great Depression the author’s parents struggled to “Get-Ahead” through hard work and perseverance, within the rigorous ethic of family honor.

In 1957, despite their son Dino’s life-long desire to be a farmer, Amerigo and Teresa leased the family farm to a neighbor for 17 years and retired. Three years later while working as a grain buyer, Dino began part-time farming on rented land with a younger brother. From that “scratch-start” beginning, Cortopassi Farms grew to significant size, based on the same family values Dino learned from his parents. Notwithstanding the achievement of widely-recognized farming success, Dino hungered to “play on more strings of my guitar” and went on to build several substantial value-added agri-business entities. Told in vivid first-person vignettes, “Getting Ahead” draws in the reader with a series of high points/low points of a 50-year entrepreneurial career.

100% of the purchase price of this very interesting, readable book goes directly to Pacific Italian Alliance, a non-profit charitable entity based in Stockton, California.