UID:
edocfu_9959227974202883
Format:
1 online resource (425 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-8047-8373-X
Content:
Henry Ford is remembered in American lore as the ultimate entrepreneur-the man who invented assembly-line manufacturing and made automobiles affordable. Largely forgotten is his side career as a publisher of antisemitic propaganda. This is the story of Ford's ownership of the Dearborn Independent, his involvement in the defamatory articles it ran, and the two Jewish lawyers, Aaron Sapiro and Louis Marshall, who each tried to stop Ford's war.In 1927, the case of Sapiro v. Ford transfixed the nation. In order to end the embarrassing litigation, Ford apologized for the
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Parties and Players: Mr. Ford Surveys the Wreckage; 1. Ford's Megaphone; 2. Marshall for the Defense; 3. Taking It to the Streets; 4. The Outsider; 5. The Other War; Part II. Litigants and Losers; 6. The Lawsuit; 7. Trial and Mistrial; 8. Apology, Retractions, and Recriminations; 9. Enforcement Without Law; Conclusion; List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8047-7234-7
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9780804783736
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