Jewish Activities in the United States: Volume II of The International Jew; A Second Selection of Articles from The Dearborn Independent
Dearborn, MI: The Dearborn Publishing Co., 1921. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. 255, [1] p. Spine has been repaired with tape. Front and back cover is worn, soiled, torn and chipped. This reprints articles that appeared from Oct. 9, 1920 to March 19, 1921. This is a rare example of the rampant anti-semitism that experienced a resurgence after the end of the First World War. It is part of the fabric of an era that saw the Rise of the Ku Klux Klan and and early Red Scare period of anti-communism/anti-bolshevism. Henry Ford, a noted anti-semite, had a close association with Dearborn, MI. Ford did not write the articles. He expressed his opinions verbally to his executive secretary, Ernest Liebold, and to William J. Cameron. Cameron had the main responsibility for expanding these opinions into article form. Liebold was responsible for collecting more material to support the articles. The Dearborn Independent, also known as The Ford International Weekly, was a weekly newspaper established in 1901, and published by Henry Ford from 1919 through 1927. The paper reached a circulation of 900,000 by 1925, second only to the New York Daily News, largely due to a quota system for promotion imposed on Ford dealers. Lawsuits regarding antisemitic material published in the paper caused Ford to close it, and the last issue was published in December 1927. The publication's title was derived from the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, Michigan. More