Henry Ford's War on Jews and the Legal Battle Against Hate Speech
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. U…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8047-8373-6
- EAN: 9780804783736
- Produktnummer: 23013288
- Verlag: Stanford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 424 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 17'294 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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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.
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