[liberallarry]

I've always been curious about Ford's "eccentric" beliefs. He was a hell of a smart guy...so I'm curious. Can you recommend any sources?

[patton]

From reading this thread, one "source" I recomend is a study of the deaths attributed to Hitler/Stalin.

Hitler - 12 million

Stalin - 27 million

[ninenot]

Can't help you there. The 'Masonic' stuff I learned from a very good friend who grew up in Motor City and worked for Chrysler--an industrial division--over here in Wisconsin.

I don't even know if there is a real bio of HF as opposed to the usual 'hagiographic' crap. But--if one is a betting man--I'd find a bio NOT underwritten by the Ford FOundation.

[nicollo]

I've always been curious about Ford's "eccentric" beliefs. He was a hell of a smart guy...so I'm curious. Can you recommend any sources?

For a liberal, I'd recommend Allan Nevins' "Ford: The Times, the Man, the Company." (Nevins wrote the preface to JFK's "Profiles in Courage.") There's a new Ford bio out this year, although I haven't read it. I'm sure it's on Amazon.com.

Ford was your basic wacky, plain American guy with all his wackiness multiplied by hundreds of millions of dollars. His anti-semitism was typical of mid-western agrarians, who loathed all things New York and banks, particularly, blaiming the Jews, of course, for both. Ford displayed his anti-semitism much earlier than the 30s, starting back in the 1910s when he became a popular hero for the Model T.