Signed book: The International Jew: The World’s Foremost Problem, Vol. I. Dearborn: Dearborn Publishing Company, 1920. Leather-bound, 5.25 x 7.75, 235 pages. Signed in fountain pen on a front blank “From your friend Henry Ford, Feb. 18, 1921.” The book comprises a collection of reprints from the Ford-owned newspaper The Dearborn Independent. Ford’s relationship with Judaism remains one of the most complex and troubling aspects of his personality. On one hand, he enjoyed genuinely respectful personal relationships with such prominent Jews as architect Albert Kahn. Still, Ford’s public statements on the Jewish “problem” and his blatant use of the Independent as an organ for his rather blunt views point to an unequivocal anti-Semitism that has shadowed his legacy to the present day. Housed in a later custom cloth clamshell case. In very good condition, with light rubbing and small chips to extremities of covers, repair to front hinge, and a touch of mild scattered soiling, a few small spots, and tiny edge tears to interior. The signature is dark and unaffected. Auction LOA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
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