The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Letter to Max M. Fisher from Moshe Arad, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States.
Left to Right: Thomas A. Murphy (Chairman, General Motors), Max M. Fisher, Robert E. McCabe (President, Detroit Renaissance), A. Alfred Taubman, Frederick C. Matthaei, Jr.
Letter from Max M. Fisher to White House Chief of Staff John Sununu concerning U.S. policy toward Jerusalem.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
Detroit Mayor Coleman Young and President Jimmy Carter
Bar-Ilan Degree
Jane Sherman talks about her father's motivation to help rebuild Detroit after the 1967 riots.
Tribute to Max Fisher
Detroit business and community leaders, left to right, Robert Surdam, Henry Ford II, Max Fisher, and Robert McCabe in front of the Renaissance Center, late 1970s.
1990 letter from Max M. Fisher to Secretary of State Jim Baker concerning Middle East peace policy.
Max Fisher fundraising at the famous annual Fisher Meeting in his home, 1984.
"The Gang of Eight" article
Max Fisher's retirement speech from United Brands
Bill Berman describes Max Fisher's belief that consensus was not "the middle ground," but the process of getting a group to all reach the right decision.
Max Fisher with former Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Shlomo Goren at the Founding Assembly of the RAFI in June 1971.