The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Max Fisher in 1977
The inner city neighborhoods in Detroit did not feel the economic growth created by the Detroit Renaissance.
Max discusses why he had been a successful fund-raiser.
"The Gang of Eight" article
Congratulatory letter from President Ronald Reagan to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max Fisher's biographer, Peter Golden, details Fisher's extensive experience as a highly successful fundraiser.
Max Fisher with Henry Kissinger in the White House. Signed, "To Max Fisher - With the affection and admiration of his friend - Henry A. Kissinger."
The original New Detroit committee. Max Fisher is in the second row, far left.
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.
Clips from 1969 articles highlighting Max Fisher's appointment as a Special Advisor to President Nixon.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Max Fisher meeting with Richard Nixon and other leaders, including John Ehrlichman, William Rogers, Rabbi Hershel Schacter, and William Wxler, in the White House in 1970.
Max Fisher addressing the final session of the Founding Assembly
Left to Right: Max M. Fisher, Louis Hamburger, Edward C. Levy, Israeli Ambassador to U.S. Itzhak Rabin, and Samuel Hamburger during the Jewish Welfare Federation Pacesetters Meeting at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit.
Max Fisher agrees to serve as Chairman of New Detroit during a meeting at McGregor Conference Center on the Campus of Wayne State University.
Robert Aronson on Max Fisher's fundraising prowess.