Henry Ford's war on Jews and the legal battle against hate speech / Victoria Saker Woeste.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woeste, Victoria Saker.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ford, Henry, 1863-1947--Trials, litigation, etc.

Ford, Henry.

Sapiro, Aaron--Trials, litigation, etc.

Sapiro, Aaron.

Dearborn independent.

Anti-Jewish propaganda--United States--History--20th century.

Anti-Jewish propaganda.

Antisemitism--United States--History--20th century.

Antisemitism.

Hate speech--United States--History--20th century.

Hate speech.

Trials (Libel)--Michigan--Detroit.

Trials (Libel).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804783736

080478373X

OCLC:

794664046