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Henry Ford: The Change-Averse Revolutionary

JL;DR SUMMARY Henry Ford, renowned for revolutionizing American industry with inventions like the Model T, paradoxically harbored deeply antisemitic views that he spread through his newspaper, The Dearborn Independent. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish StereotypesHenry FordModernityThe Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion1920s AmericaCultural BacklashThe Dearborn IndependentFord Motor CompanyLegal Recognition

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Dearborn, Michigan, United States
"Popularizing Protocols in the pages of The Dearborn Independent, a Michigan newspaper with a once modest circulation, Ford made it front page news throughout the early 1920s."
Manhattan, New York, United States
"From where Ford sat, the Jews of America were responsible for everything that soiled and debased the modern nation: the movies, jazz, trouser-clad women, the mongrelization of Manhattan and just about everything else that characterized the Jazz Age."

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