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Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech

Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech - Paperback

by Victoria Saker Woeste
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Availability:In StockContributor:Victoria Saker WoesteTheme:Chronological Period/20th Century, Ethnic Orientation/JewishPublish date:4/15/2013Pages:424
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788670ISBN-10:0804788677UPC:9780804788670Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Jewish, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SC6QJ4NWK3

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 one thing he would never have lost on in court: the offense of hate speech.

Using never-before-discovered evidence from archives and private family collections, this study reveals the depth of Ford's involvement in every aspect of this case and explains why Jewish civil rights lawyers and religious leaders were deeply divided over how to handle Ford.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Stanford University PressISBN-13:9780804788670ISBN-10:0804788677UPC:9780804788670Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Jewish, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.59Product ID:SC6QJ4NWK3
Victoria Saker Woeste is Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago and has had teaching appointments at Indiana University-Indianapolis, Northwestern University, and Amherst College. Her first book was awarded the Law and Society Association's J. Willard Hurst Prize.
Publisher: Stanford University Press

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