Henry Ford and the Jews
The Mass Production of Hate
Neil Baldwin(Author)
PublicAffairs,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 3. December 2001
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-1-891620-52-2 (ISBN)
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Description
A revealing examination of the making of America's most famous anti-Semite.. How and why did this quintessential American folk-hero and pioneering industrialist become one of the most obsessive anti-Semites of our time-a man who devoted his immense financial resources to publishing a pernicious forgery, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion? Once Henry Ford's virulent media campaign against the Jews took off during the "anxious decade" following World War I, how did America's splintered Jewish community attempt to cope with the relentless tirade conducted for ninety-one consecutive weeks in the automobile manufacturer's personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent? What were the repercussions of Ford's Jew-hatred extending deeply into the 1930s? Drawing upon previously-uncited oral history transcripts, archival correspondence, and family memoirs, Neil Baldwin answers these and other questions, examining the conservative biases of the men at the inner circle of the Ford Motor Company and disentangling painful ideological struggles among an elite Jewish leadership reluctantly pitted against the clout and popularity of "The Flivver King. "
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
Children/juvenile
College/higher education
Young adult
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facsimiles, , portraits
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
768 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-891620-52-2 (9781891620522)
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Person
Neil Baldwin is the executive director of the National Book Foundation and the author of Legends of the Plumed Serpent, Man Ray, To All Gentleness: William Carlos Williams, and Edison. He lives in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.