American Decades
Henry Ford and the Dearborn Independent
Henry Ford, Publisher.
In 1919 Henry Ford, the man who put America on wheels with his Model T, purchased The Dearborn Independent, a weekly publication, to present his views to his many admirers. While Ford himself did not exercise direct editorial control over the publication, it reflected his opinions and beliefs.
Perpetuating Old Lies.
In 1920 The Dearborn Independent began a series of articles attacking the alleged power of Jews in the international banking community and their relation to the recent World War, which Ford had bitterly opposed. The articles, later published as The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem (1922), reflected many of the anti-Semitic assumptions of nineteenth-century American rural culture. The Dearborn Independent charged that Jewish financiers had gained control of the money supply and manipulated it to advance their interests. (Ford himself...
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1920's Religion
