The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Peter Cummings relates Max Fisher's instinct to work behind the scenes.
Max M. Fisher with A. Alfred Taubman in the early 1980s
Max Fisher with Yitzhak Rabin in 1967.
Max Fisher speaks at the Allied Jewish Campaign fundraising event in 1958.
Detroit's Renaissance Center Article
Robert Aronson explains that Max Fisher could ask people for money effectively and get what he asked for.
Congratulatory letter from Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Al Taubman talks about the key to Max's ability to raise funds.
Special Consultant to the President on Voluntary Action
Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, discusses Fisher's influence with President Ford.
Blighted urban housing in Detroit in the 1970s
Letter from Max M. Fisher to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu concerning U.S. policy toward Jerusalem.
Edsel Ford claims the name Max Fisher is synonymous with the city of Detroit.
A photograph of the then four living presidents, signed by each, presented to Max Fisher in 1998, along with a personal letter from Gerald Ford.
Robert Aronson explains how Max Fisher has been indispensible to Israeli leaders in helping them deal with America.
President Reagan honored Max Fisher with the Presidential Citizen Medal at the White House in 1989.