Ted Nace
| Ted Nace | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ted Nace California |
| Citizenship | American |
| Education | Andover |
| Alma mater | Stanford |
| Occupation | Environmental activist Publisher Author |
| Years active | 20 years (activist) 10 years (publishing) |
| Notable work |
Climate Hope (book) Gangs of America |
| Home town | Dickinson, ND |
Ted Nace grew up in California and North Dakota in his hometown of Dickinson. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover and graduated with the school's first co-educational class in 1974. He graduated from Stanford University. While in graduate school at Berkeley, he worked for the Environmental Defense Fund and helped develop computer simulations that analyzed replacing coal–fired power plants with alternative energy programs. Nace worked for the Dakota Resource Council, a citizens' group connected with the Energy Action Coalition concerned about the impacts of energy development on agriculture and rural communities.
Nace worked as an editor for the computer magazine PC World and as a columnist for Publish! and Computer Currents magazine. He founded Peachpit Press with Michael Gardner in 1985, initially working out of his apartment in the Bay Area of San Francisco. He wrote numerous how–to books on computer–related subjects. Computer writer Elaine Weinmann described how Nace let authors typeset and illustrate their own books and described his publishing approach as user-friendly and innovative. The company grew in size and sales, and had a publishing orientation towards books relating to Apple computers, and was described as a leader in books about digital graphics. The firm published the MacBible series, the Real World series, the Visual QuickStart (VQS) series, and most of the titles by writer Robin Williams such as The Mac is not a typewriter and the Little Mac Book. He sold Peachpit in 1994 and left the company in 1996.
Mr. Nace explored the relation between corporations and democracy in America. In 2003, his book Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy argued his case for the deleterious effects of corporations on society and the economy and the specious character of their quasi-legal enablements and suggested that corporations were undermining American democracy:
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