In the following essay, Diamond surveys the obituary assessments of Ford's life and cultural significance as reported in both mainstream and alternative news media.

In the following essay, Jardim examines the early part of Ford's career.

Wilson was one of the foremost literary critics in the United States. A prolific writer who also produced poetry, plays, novels, journalistic nonfiction, and historical studies, Wilson was at all times concerned with the social reality that gives human actions, and the products of human actions, context and meaning. In the following essay, originally published in 1931, he presents a portrait of life in the auto industry, examining the reality against the various myths of Ford legend.

In the following essay, which was originally published in American Jewish History in June 1980, Ribuffo closely examines the historical context and the content of the anti-Semitic articles Ford published in The Dearborn Independent and, subsequently, in the four volumes entitled The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, Jewish Activities in the United States, Jewish Influences in American Life, and Aspects of Jewish Power in the United States.

In the following essay, Bradford presents a generally positive overview of Ford's life and career.

In the following essay, Myers examines the anti-Semitic articles Ford published in his newspaper The Dearborn Independent. The articles were originally published in a column entitled "The International Jew."

Dos Passos was one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century. His most highly regarded works—including Three Soldiers (1921), Manhattan Transfer (1925), and the three volumes of his U.S.A. trilogy: The 42nd Parallel (7950), 1919 (1932), and The Big Money (1936)—reflect a Modernist literary sensibility and a passion for liberal social and political ideals. After feeling personally betrayed by the actions of communists around the world in the 1930s, Dos Passos became inc...

Niebuhr was an American theologian who worked and wrote extensively on applying the insights of Christianity to the analysis and solution of social problems. A pastor in Detroit at the time the following essay was written, Niebuhr wrote many books, including Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics (1932), Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History (1937), The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941-1943), and The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurrin...

Davidson was one of the major figures in the Southern Agrarian literary and critical movement that started at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s and included writers such as John Crowe Ransom and Robert Penn Warren. The Agrarians were politically conservative and espoused the value of agricultural life and labor; consequently, they were highly critical of industrialization. In the following essay, he criticizes Ford's materialistic, mechanistic, and capitalistic ideals.