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Human rights activist, historian, filmmaker, and author. Drop the Fee Campaign, parliamentary liaison; Quebec Public Interest Research Group, co-founder; Anne and Max Bailey Centre for Holocaust Studies, executive director. Also producer of documentaries, including Schmelvis and Too Colorful for the League.
AWARDS:“David Suzuki Digs My Garden” First Prize, David Suzuki Foundation, 2009; Investigative Journalism Award, Rolling Stone magazine.
WRITINGS
Also contributor to periodicals and other media, including British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Sunday New York Times.
The book, Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America, was adapted for film by Stephen Frears, 2013.
SIDELIGHTS
Max Wallace (also known as Maxwell Wallace) has become most well known for his contributions to the filmmaking and journalism industries. He has previously been affiliated with the Shoah Foundation and the Anne and Max Bailey Centre for Holocaust, where he served as executive director. He also helped to found the Ottawa International Busker Festival and the Ottawa Folk Festival. Wallace is the creator of numerous films, the most notable being Schmelvis and Too Colorful for the League. The latter film received a Gemini Award nomination. Wallace has been featured in numerous publications throughout his journalism career, including Sunday New York Times and BBC, among many others.
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon was written in collaboration with fellow author Ian Halperin. The book aims to unearth the truth regarding Kurt Cobain and his death; Wallace and Halperin argue that events unfolded much differently than what is commonly believed. Rather than Cobain being the cause of his own death, Wallace and Halperin assert that Cobain’s wife, Courtney Love, was behind it all in one way or another. They also argue that Love could have paid someone to take Cobain’s life, or she could have done it by her own hand. As they delve into the events surrounding Cobain’s demise, they also take a look at both his and Love’s lives before they became famous. This leads to the development of Love and Cobain’s relationship, and with this event, Wallace and Halperin theorize that Love was after Cobain’s money at the time their relationship began to fail, and that having him dead was the only way she could secure his assets for herself. The duo also looks into how Love could have pulled off the deed.
In Booklist, Raul Nino called Who Killed Kurt Cobain? “good and interesting” and recommended it “for fans of pop music and murder mysteries alike.” A Publishers Weekly reviewer expressed that the book is “manna for rumor-mongers and for those who find horror behind the ironic names of Nirvana and Love.”
In the Name of Humanity
In In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust, Wallace investigates the efforts of Isaac and Recha Sternbuch, a married couple who resided in the country of Switzerland during the Holocaust. Isaac and Recha were both Jewish. As the Holocaust unfolded, Recha took it upon herself to help her fellow Jews—particularly those who were looking for entrance into Switzerland as a means of getting away from the increasingly oppressive situation occurring within Germany. She was able to do so with assistance from Paul Grüninger, who used to be the leader of Switzerland’s police force. However, the two were eventually discovered and brought within police custody to be charged with illegal smuggling. Even so, this didn’t stop Isaac and Recha from doing whatever they could to help their people. Wallace devotes a generous portion of the book to detailing each of their deeds throughout the Holocaust.
Booklist contributor Jay Freeman called In the Name of Humanity a “fascinating, largely untold account.” A writer in Kirkus Reviews concluded that the book is “a riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.”
The American Axis
The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich Elizabeth Morris deals not just with the relationship between Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, but also their views on the country of Germany, particularly as the Nazi Regime began to develop and expand. Wallace closely examines the viewpoints of both men, as well as how their alliances with the Nazi party came into being and developed. According to his research, while Ford seemed quite well-meaning toward Jewish people, his true sentiments were anything but. Some of Ford’s staff members, as Wallace asserts, held Antisemitic views and Ford subtly tried to support their efforts. Much of Wallace’s research on Lindbergh came from the official archives of Lindbergh’s travels and writings, stored and maintained by Yale University. Through these records, Wallace was able to discover much about Lindbergh’s personal views regarding the Nazis’ control over Germany. Lindbergh traveled extensively to the country throughout the era, and through this he was able to learn about Hitler and observe his rise to power. Wallace reveals that Lindbergh liked and agreed with much of Hitler’s ideologies. For a time, Lindbergh worked (albeit without consent) with Germany to help them advance their air force. This operation, as Wallace asserts, serves as the true basis for Lindbergh’s report on the formidable status of Germany and its military flight capabilities.
Elizabeth Morris, a reviewer in Library Journal, felt that the book should be “recommended for academic and larger public libraries.” A Kirkus Reviews contributor called the book “a finely wrought, careful, and utterly damning case that ought to prompt a widespread reevaluation of both Ford and Lindbergh.”
BIOCRIT
PERIODICALS
Booklist, March 15, 1998, Raul Nino, review of Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon, p. 1193; April 1, 2018, Jay Freeman, review of In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust, p. 49.
Kirkus Reviews, May 15, 2003, review of The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich, p. 741; April 1, 2018, review of In the Name of Humanity.
Library Journal, June 15, 2003, Elizabeth Morris, review of The American Axis, p. 89.
Publishers Weekly, February 16, 1998, review of Who Killed Kurt Cobain?, p. 196; May 5, 2003, review of The American Axis, p. 206.
ONLINE
Simon and Schuster website, http://www.simonandschuster.com/ (July 16, 2018), author profile.
Max Wallace
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Max Wallace
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Born Maxwell Wallace
United States
Occupation Writer, filmmaker, historian, human rights activist
Language English
Nationality Canadian
Citizenship Canadian
Education University
Period present
Genre non-fiction
Max Wallace is a Canadian journalist and historian specializing in the Holocaust, human rights in sport, and popular culture. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and long-time human rights activist.
Contents
1 Literary works
1.1 In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
1.2 The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich
1.3 Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
1.4 Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
1.5 Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America
2 Film
3 Holocaust historian
4 Activism
5 Published works
6 Awards
7 References
8 External links
Literary works
In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust
Published by Penguin/Random House, this work focuses on the heroic actions of a Swiss-based rescue committee headed by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple, Recha and Isaac Sternbuch. Before the war, Recha smuggled thousands of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany into Switzerland, aided by St. Gallen police Captain Paul Grüninger, a man often known today as the Swiss Schindler. Grüninger was fired and Recha was arrested in May 1939 after Swiss authorities learned of their extensive underground smuggling operation. After the war began, the Sternbuchs were primarily responsible for communicating news of the Final Solution to the west in 1942 after they received a coded cable about the Nazi genocide from a source inside the Warsaw Ghetto a month after WJC counsel Gerhart Riegner sent a similar cable to New York which was kept secret until its contents could be verified by the US government. In 1944, the Sternbuchs learned that the former President of Switzerland, Jean-Marie Musy, had intervened to free a Jewish couple from a Nazi concentration camp in France. Recha Sternbuch subsequenetly enlisted Musy — a devout Catholic and fascist sympathizer — to negotiate with the architect of genocide, SS Chief Heinrich Himmler, who he knew from anti-Communist circles before the war. After the war began to turn against Germany, Himmler was known to have harboured hopes for a separate peace whereby the western Allies would unite with Nazi Germany against its common ideological enemy, the Soviet Union, to stamp out Bolshevism. Representing the Union of Orthodox Rabbis and the Sternbuch Rescue Committee, Musy, who was horrified to learn about the Nazi genocide, travelled to Germany to meet with Himmler in November 1944. At this meeting, he cultivated Himmler's delusion by falsely informing him that the West was open to such an alliance but only if Germany first ended the genocide against the Jews. Less than three weeks later, on November 25, 1944, Himmler gave the order to destroy the crematoria and gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau where more than 1.1 million Jews had been murdered since 1942. The Hungarian Jewish rescue leader, Reszo Kasztner, claimed he was shown a written order issued by Himmler, also on November 25, "prohibiting the further killing of Jews." Israeli historian Yehuda Bauer has described Himmler's Auschwitz decree as the end of the "planned, systematic and total extermination of the Jews." Many historians previously believed that Himmler ordered the Birkenau murder apparatus destroyed to hide evidence of Nazi crimes in advance of the approaching Soviet Red Army, even though the Germans left behind more than 7,000 inmates when they evacuated the camp two months later. In 1974, Bauer took issue with this theory at the first Yad Vashem Institute symposium on rescue operations. "There are those who claim that the order was the result of the advance of the Soviets and Americans, etc," Bauer told the gathering, "but it can also be assumed that the advance of these forces might have led to exactly the opposite result, ie. it could have hastened the extermination process." For the first time, Wallace's book presents evidence linking Himmler's decree to these secret negotiations after the author discovered documents housed in an Orthodox Jewish archive at New York's Yeshiva University linking Himmler's orders to the Musy negotiations. Among these documents is a cable sent by the Sternbuchs through the Polish diplomatic code to the Vaad ha-Hatzalah in New York on November 20, 1944 detailing Musy's negotiations with Himmler. The cable informed the Vaad that Musy had received a "promise to cease extermination in concentration camps." On November 22, the Sternbuchs sent another cable revealing that the Papal nuncio in Switzerland had "received a promise that the slaughters will cease." Three days later, Himmler ordered the destruction of the Auschwitz extermination apparatus. The book also documents a dramatic battle during the final months of the war between Himmler, still seeking a separate peace with the western Allies, and Adolf Hitler, who wanted to take "every last Jew down with the Reich." Abetted by western intelligence officials, the Sternbuchs and Musy engineered a massive deception which saw Himmler countermand orders from Hitler to dynamite the concentration camps and to agree to allow officials from the International Red Cross into the camps to deliver food and medical supplies on the condition that they agree to remain in the camps for the duration of the war. During the final weeks of the war, these negotiations also resulted in an extraordinary meeting between a Swedish representative of the World Jewish Congress, Norbert Masur, and Himmler, deep inside Germany on the night of Hitler's birthday, April 20/21,1945. After leaving this meeting, Himmler met with the head of the Swedish Red Cross, Count Folke Bernadotte, and offered a German surrender on the western front. When Hitler learned of this "betrayal" by one of his most trusted lieutenants less than 48 hours before he committed suicide in the Führerbunker, he ordered Himmler's arrest and excommunication from the Nazi Party. The Canadian Jewish News described Wallace's book as "an impressive piece of scholarship and a compelling chapter of Holocaust history." The book was a finalist for the 2018 RBC Taylor Prize for the best work of literary non-fiction.
The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of the Third Reich
This work, published in 2003 by St. Martin's Press about the Nazi sympathies of two American icons, received a cover endorsement by two-time Pulitzer-prize winning historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. In the book, Wallace details the close collaboration between aviator Charles Lindbergh and automotive pioneer Henry Ford and traces the evolution of their sympathetic views on Nazi Germany. As the first unauthorized biographer ever to gain access to Lindbergh's archives at Yale University, Wallace presents details of the flier's many trips to Germany during the 1930's and his increasing admiration for Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich. He reveals evidence that the Germans used Lindbergh as an unwilling dupe to vastly inflate German air estimates at a time when the German air force was much weaker than it pretended. The book argues that Lindbergh's well publicized description of German air superiority played a major role in the west's decision to appease Hitler at Munich in 1938. Only weeks after the Munich agreement, the Nazis presented Lindbergh with their highest civilian honor, the Order of the German Eagle. The book describes Lindbergh's prominent role as a leader of the isolationist movement after the commencement of the second world war in Europe and as a spokesperson for the America First Committee lobbying to keep America out of the war. It also details Lindbergh's eugenic and anti-Semitic views, culminating in his infamous Des Moines speech on September 11, 1941 in which the isolationist spokesperson claimed that "The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish [sic] and the Roosevelt Administration." Instead of agitating for war, he declared, "the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way for they will be among the first to feel its consequences.” When the speech was reported the next day, it set off a wave of revulsion by the media and the public that turned Lindbergh into a national pariah. President Roosevelt told his secretary of Treasury, "If I should die tomorrow, I want you to know this. I am absolutely convinced that Lindbergh is a Nazi.” The book also explores Henry Ford's Nazi sympathies and his central involvement in the most notorious anti-Semitic campaign in American history when Ford bought The Dearborn Independent and used the newspaper to blame the Jews for most of the world's troubles. From 1920-1927, the newspaper introduced Americans to a variety of virulent anti-Jewish conspiracy theories, including the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Wallace traces the mysterious evolution of Ford's anti-Semitism which puzzled many observers at the time because Ford had displayed no previous anti-Semitic tendencies. On the contrary, he was known to be benevolent to his Jewish employees and to his neighbour, Detroit's most prominent Rabbi, Leo Franklin. The book reveals evidence proving that Ford's private secretary, Ernest Liebold, had been a German spy during World War One and who was largely responsible for turning Ford against the Jews by convincing him that Jewish communists were conspiring to unionize his company. Liebold also used the Independent as a vehicle to blame Jews the defeat of Germany in World War One and for the rise of Bolshevism. A series of articles trumpeting this theme was translated into German and published in book form as The International Jew. The book was later cited by many Nazis as deeply influential, including the leader of the Hitler Youth, Baldur von Schirach, who testified at the Nuremberg Trials, "I read it and became anti-Semitic." Hitler hung a portrait of Ford over his desk at his Munich headquarters and told a Detroit columnist that he regarded Ford as "my inspiration." Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler's manifesto, Mein Kampf. Like Lindbergh, the Nazis presented Ford with Germany’s highest civilian decoration, the Order of the German Eagle, on his 75th birthday in 1938.
Who Killed Kurt Cobain?
As a former music journalist, Wallace coauthored the international bestseller Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin in 1998 (described as a "judicious presentation of explosive material" by The New Yorker). Much of the book explores the phenomenon of the 68 copycat suicides following the death of Cobain in April, 1994.
Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain
Published in 2004, Wallace wrote Love and Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Halperin,[1] which reached the New York Times bestseller list. The book presents explosive tapes recorded by Beverly Hills Private Investigator Tom Grant, who was hired by Courtney Love to find her husband after Kurt Cobain went missing from a Los Angeles drug rehab facility in April 1994. Among the tapes is a recording of Cobain's entertainment lawyer Rosemary Carroll, godmother to the couple's daughter Frances Bean Cobain, casting doubt on the official suicide theory and revealing Carroll's belief that the suicide note was "forged or traced." On the tapes, Carroll also revealed that Cobain was in the process of divorcing Love at the time of his death.
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America
Written in 2000, this book covers Muhammad Ali's long battle against the US government over his stand against the Vietnam War. Ali wrote the foreword. In 2013, the book was adapted into a movie directed by two-time Oscar nominee Stephen Frears, starring Danny Glover, Christopher Plummer and Frank Langella. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2013.
Film
Wallace is also a documentary filmmaker whose first film, Too Colorful for the League, about the history of racism in hockey for CBC TV, was nominated for a Gemini Award. The film documents a crusade to enshrine the black superstar Herb Carnegie into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Wallace has also contributed to the BBC and the Sunday New York Times. His second film, Schmelvis, about the Jewish roots of Elvis Presley, had a US theatrical release and played in more than 75 film festivals around the world. In the 1990s, Wallace was the director and co-founder of both the Ottawa Folk Festival and the Ottawa International Busker Festival when employed as station manager for CKCU-FM, Canada's largest community radio station.
Holocaust historian
Wallace is a former Executive Director of the Anne and Max Bailey Centre for Holocaust studies in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. During the 1990s, he worked for several years with Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation, recording the video testimonies of Holocaust survivors. For more than a decade, he has been researching Holocaust-era rescue operations and secret negotiations with high level Nazis during the waning days of World War 2 to prevent the annihilation of the remaining Jews of Europe.
Activism
Wallace was a prominent activist in the anti-Apartheid, Fair Trade, and peace movements and worked with Ralph Nader founding the Quebec Public Interest Research Group in the 1980s. He also worked as a clinical instructor at the Osgoode Hall Poverty Law program (PCLS) and as a community legal worker. He is currently active in issues around food security, affordable housing, and environmental education. He continues to promote the International Victory Gardens Network ("Plant a Victory Garden, help win the war against hunger") that he started in 2001, helping to bring urban agriculture and food security to marginalized and socially isolated communities throughout the world in the spirit of the World War II victory gardens which helped the Allies win the war. In 2009, he won the David Suzuki Foundation's "David Suzuki Digs My Garden" contest for best organic ornamental garden in Canada. He is also Parliamentary Liaison of the Drop the Fee Campaign, aiming to eliminate the Refugee Processing Fee that serves as a barrier to countless immigrants and refugees in Canada.
Published works
In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust (Penguin/Random House Canada and Skyhorse USA, 2018)
The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich (St. Martin's Press, 2003)
Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin in 1998
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America (M. Evans & Co., 2000)
Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain with Ian Halperin (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
Awards
1985: Shared the Rolling Stone Magazine Award for Investigative Journalism.
References
Wallace, M.; Halperin, I. (2004). Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain. Atria Books. ISBN 9781416503316. Retrieved 2015-04-14.
External links
Max Wallace on IMDb
Authority control
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Max Wallace
Max Wallace is a recipient of Rolling Stone magazine¹s Award for Investigative Journalism; he is also a documentary filmmaker. In 1998, he coauthored the international bestseller Who Killed Kurt Cobain? with Ian Halperin. He is also the author of Muhammad Ali¹s Greatest Fight: Cassius Clay vs. the United States of America, and The American Axis: Ford, Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. His first documentary film, Too Colorful for the League, was nominated for a Gemini Award (Canada¹s equivalent of an Emmy). Max has been a guest columnist for the Sunday New York Times, and contributed to the BBC.
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the
Holocaust
Jay Freeman
Booklist.
114.15 (Apr. 1, 2018): p49.
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In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust. By Max Wallace. May 2018.496p. Skyhorse, $26.99 (9781510734975). 940.53.
On November 25, 1944, the crematoria and gas chambers at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau were blown up at the explicit
instructions of S.S. Commander Heinrich Himmler, who designed the system of mass extermination. Himmler was both a virulent racist and a
cynical careerist. Recognizing that the war was lost, he had ordered the dismantling of death camps as part of his plan to negotiate with Britain
and the U.S. to save his own skin. His path to this decision against the directive of Hitler was convoluted, halting, and involved a surprising cast
of characters. Perhaps the most influential and enigmatic of those was Jean Musy, a Swiss politician, Nazi sympathizer, and longtime friend of
Himmler. "The serpentine planning also pulled in an Orthodox Jewish couple, Zionist sympathizers, and American intelligence agents. Wallace,
an investigative journalist, acknowledges that Himmlers actions didn't end the Holocaust, since forced marches, disease, and starvation continued
to kill thousands. Still, this fascinating, largely untold account shows how an unlikely confluence of people and events saved the lives of a
remnant of surviving European Jews.--Jay Freeman
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Freeman, Jay. "In the Name of Humanity: The Secret Deal to End the Holocaust." Booklist, 1 Apr. 2018, p. 49. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A534956850/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=417b21b2. Accessed 27 June 2018.
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Wallace, Max: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY
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Wallace, Max IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY Skyhorse Publishing (Adult Nonfiction) $26.99 5, 1 ISBN: 978-1-5107-3497-5
Beyond the well-known work of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, Wallace (The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the
Rise of the Third Reich, 2003) sets out to tell the story of the staggering network built by a Swiss-based rescue group.
This small band worked tirelessly, giving of their lives and fortunes to save the Jews interned by the Nazis. Working with and against unbelieving
ministers of Allied countries, Zionists and anti-Zionists, Orthodox and secular Jews, Catholics, outcasts, and even some Nazis, they saved tens of
thousands of lives. Desperate attempts to convince the Allies to help--even to bomb railway lines to Auschwitz--met with nothing but frustration,
as they were told that priorities were to win the war, not save lives. Even the Red Cross claimed that the Nazi treatment of Jews was an internal
matter. The mutual suspicion and traditional divisions between secular and religious Jewish communities provided rifts that unfortunately often
undermined some of their valiant attempts. Though many of the names will be unfamiliar to most readers--Recha and Isaac Sternbuch, Gerhart
Riegner, Jean-Marie Musy, Joel Brand, Rudolf Kasztner--their work was indispensable, and the author brings them to well-deserved light. From
physically saving refugees in Switzerland to providing false passports and visas to Italy or China, even a few to Palestine, small efforts grew into
a larger, wider, and more desperate movement. In Slovenia, organizers hatched a plan to ransom prisoners, and the connection of a Finnish
osteopath brought them to Heinrich Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust. Himmler knew, as many Nazis did but were terrified to admit, that
the war was lost. Himmler attempted to work with them to close the camps, but his fear of Hitler was palpable. Throughout, Wallace introduces
readers to a host of inspiring heroes, most of whom were quiet and unassuming yet intensely dedicated to saving European Jewry.
A riveting tale of the previously unknown and fascinating story of the unsung angels who strove to foil the Final Solution.
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"Wallace, Max: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY." Kirkus Reviews, 1 Apr. 2018. General OneFile,
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Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles
Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich
Elizabeth Morris
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In the days preceding World War II, two well-known Americans became entangled in the emerging German political presence, causing
controversy back in the States. Journalist Wallace examines how Charles Lindbergh's support for Nazi militarism and U.S. isolationism and
Henry Ford's business dealings with Germany tarnished their idealized images. Drawing on original sources, Wallace brings out some pertinent
connections between the two men's anti-Semitism and their ties with the rising Nazi regime. He also describes how the images of both men were
rehabilitated as the decades passed. However, the double biographical treatment can be awkward, and the text veers sharply between Ford and
Lindbergh and their associated chains of events. This results in a confusing set of time lines and a sprawling breadth of information. The book's
theme becomes tenuous, as the men's real lives diverged considerably, but Wallace concludes powerfully with an investigation into the mostly
profitable consequences of Ford's wartime production in Germany. For a more focused account of this aspect of American history, see Edwin
Black's IBM and the Holocaust. Recommended for academic and larger public libraries.--Elizabeth Morris, Davenport Univ. Lib., Kalamazoo, MI
Morris, Elizabeth
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Morris, Elizabeth. "Wallace, Max. The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich." Library Journal, 15
June 2003, p. 89. General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A104438718/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=51344e5f.
Accessed 27 June 2018.
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The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh,
and the Rise of the Third Reich. (Nonfiction)
Kirkus Reviews.
71.10 (May 15, 2003): p741.
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Whisper an antiwar sentiment today, and you're branded a traitor. Hinder the Allied war effort and champion the Nazi cause, as did a captain of
industry and a pioneer of aviation, and you'll be remembered as a hero.
So Wallace, a researcher for Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project, demonstrates in this eye-opening if sometimes circumstantial account of
automaker Henry Ford's and pilot Charles Lindbergh's multifaceted dealings with the Hitler regime. Ford was singularly instrumental, Wallace
charges, with Hitler's rise; not only did Hitler and other Nazis credit their conversion to anti-Semitism in part to Ford's scurrilous The
International Jew, but Ford also funded the early Nazi party unstintingly and, knowingly or not, gave Nazi operatives access to manufacturing
specifications and other documents at least until America entered the war. Hitler himself said, "I regard Henry Ford as my inspiration," not least
for providing a model of mass production for the Nazi killing machine. Direct evidence of Ford's financial role in bringing Hitler to power is
scanty, Wallace writes, "a significant amount of the [Ford Motor] company's early days--particularly material pertaining to Ford's anti-Semitism"
having been carefully discarded . Lindbergh, famed for his transatlantic solo flight, brought pseudoscientific theories of eugenics to his own
admiration for the Nazi regime, and the Nazis reciprocated by depicting the blond, blue-eyed Lindbergh as the exemplar of Aryan manhood.
Strangely, by Wallace's account, both men seemed mystified when the Roosevelt administration did not court their services at the outbreak of
WWLI, on which occasion Ford remarked, "The whole thing has just been made up by Jew bankers." Though Lindbergh served as a consultant to
Ford in the development of the B-24 bomber, he was unable to gain a military commission--and for good reason, inasmuch as even in 1945 he
was publicly lamenting the destruction of Germany, a civilization that "was basically our own, stemming from the same Christian beliefs."
A finely wrought, careful, and utterly damning case that ought to prompt a widespread reevaluation of both Ford and Lindbergh. (Agent: Noah
Lukeman)
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"The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. (Nonfiction)." Kirkus Reviews, 15 May 2003, p. 741.
General OneFile, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A102155321/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=1bce0c7e. Accessed 27 June 2018.
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The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh,
and the Rise of the Third Reich. (Nonfiction)
Publishers Weekly.
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MAX WALLACE. St. Martin's, $27.95 (480p) ISBN 0-312-29022-5
Although Wallace (Who Killed Kurt Cobain?) is a recipient of Rolling Stone's Award for Investigative Journalism and appears to have done much
primary research, he delivers a highly speculative rehash of material handled much better in A. Scott berg's Lindbergh, Robert Lacey's Ford: The
Man and the Machine and such seminal studies as Charles Higham's American Swastika. Wallace tries and fails to sensationalize well-known
facts about the parochial American fifth column of the late 1930S and early '40s, a bungling movement of which Ford and Lindbergh were among
the most public faces. Wallace sees a conspiracy in what he presents as Ford's pro-Nazi partnership with Lindbergh: a dark and powerful alliance
designed to hinder the Allies at every turn. In fact, the two men were far more naive than effectual in their attempts to prop up American
isolationism before Pearl Harbor. And Lindbergh, who counted Harry Guggenheim among his closest friends, found Ford's hatred of Jews
repugnant. Once war was declared, both Lin dbergh and Ford helped the Allied effort. Lindbergh helped develop the Corsair and later, as a
"civilian observer," flew more than 25 combat missions over the South Pacific. At the same time, Ford (with Lindbergh's help, and after a few
false starts) became the leading manufacturer of the bomber. Were Ford and Lindbergh half-witted dupes of Nazi propaganda before the war?
Undoubtedly. Were they Nazi agents either before or after the start of hostilities? Wallace fails to make the case. 13 photos. (Aug.)
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"The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich. (Nonfiction)." Publishers Weekly, 5 May 2003, p. 206.
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Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an
Icon
Raul Nino
Booklist.
94.14 (Mar. 15, 1998): p1193.
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Just who did kill Kurt Cobain? Was it really Cobain himself, through careless use of drugs and intentional aim with a rifle? Or was it Courtney
Love, Cobain's extravagant and chameleon-like wife? Or could it have been someone she hired -- a professional assassin or lucky amateur? At
this point one can't tell, yet the compelling chain of events that Halperin and Wallace expose constitutes evidence of a plausible alternative
explanation to the official verdict of suicide. Cobain's short life (he was 27 when he died) was fraught with anguish -- broken family, lost love and
a desperate search for its return, youthful rebellion, homelessness, drugs. Reality surpassed Cobain's dreams, yet even when he became a
millionaire rock star, his past wouldn't let go, and he continued to drown depression in heavy drug use. Halperin and Wallace have written a very
good and interesting book, sans hero worship, for fans of pop music and murder mysteries alike, one that soberly lays out the case for thinking
this pop icon's death may not be an open-and-shut case.
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
Nino, Raul. "Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon." Booklist, 15 Mar. 1998, p. 1193. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20435427/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=9e246ecb. Accessed 27 June 2018.
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Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an
Icon
Publishers Weekly.
245.7 (Feb. 16, 1998): p196.
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Ian Halperin and Max Wallace. Birch Lane, $21.95 (240p) ISBN 1-55972-446-3
On April 8, 1994, Kurt Cobain's corpse was discovered in his Seattle home. By the summer of 1996, rumors of cover-up and murder were making
the rounds in coffee shops and rock clubs and on the Internet, with most fingers pointing at Cobain's widow, Courtney Love. Music journalists
Halperin and Wallace fill about half their pages with a serviceable joint biography of Cobain and Love, though the meat of the book is their
investigation into the rock star's death. The essence of the crime theory, as promulgated by Tom Grant, a private investigator initially hired by
Love herself, is that Cobain was murdered with a fatal injection of pure heroin, and then shot. The question of why anyone, after injecting a
known junkie with a fatal dose of heroin, would bother to shoot him is the most prominent problem with the theory. The authors cite other,
perhaps more provocative data, including statements by a man who claims he was hired to kill Cobain. The motive the authors uncover seems
more plausible: When the two rock stars wed, they report, Love, the more successful of the pair at the time, made Cobain sign a prenuptial
agreement. But now Cobain was worth a fortune, and there is some evidence that Cobain was going to divorce Love. The evidence isn't solid, and
in fact much of whats presented here is wispy, but the authors certainly seem to have dug hard, making this, while not a good bet for serious true
crime fans, manna for rumor-mongers and for those who find horror behind the ironic names of Nirvana and Love. Illustrations not seen by PW.
(Mar.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th
Edition)
"Who Killed Kurt Cobain? The Mysterious Death of an Icon." Publishers Weekly, 16 Feb. 1998, p. 196. General OneFile,
http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A20305840/ITOF?u=schlager&sid=ITOF&xid=ad4ab43b. Accessed 27 June 2018.
Gale Document Number: GALE|A20305840