The Dark Side of Henry Ford: The Mass Production Of Hate (2001)

Neil Baldwin is the author of books on topics related to history and culture, and a professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Montclair State University. Read the book: All his life, Ford was a conspiracy theorist, as he and his writers drew on a long European tradition of false allegations against Jews. Ford himself emphasized the dangers that internationalism posed to traditional American values, which he deeply believed were at risk in the modern world. In the early 1920s, Ford sponsored a weekly newspaper given away by his dealers that published strongly antisemitic views. At the same time, Ford had a reputation as one of the few major corporations actively hiring Black workers. He also hired women and handicapped men at a time when doing so was uncommon. Part of his racist and antisemitic legacy includes the funding of square-dancing in American schools because he hated jazz and associated its creation with Jewish 1918, Ford’s closest aide and priva
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