The Max M. Fisher Resource Center

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Peter Golden, Max Fisher's biographer, on Fisher's role as conduit in deals between US and Israel.
Congratulatory letter from Brian Kott, President of the Detroit Chapter of the AJC, to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award.
Gene Miller relates Max Fisher's legendary fundraising power.
Coleman Young amid construction of Detroit's Renaissance Center
Max Fisher in meetings with President Ford and staff in the White House in the spring of 1975.
Max Fisher poses with a plaque from an article from The Detroit News about his involvement with the renaissance of Detroit.
Congratulatory letter from Bob Dole to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Max and Marjorie Fisher with Henry Ford II and his wife, Christina, during a trip to Israel in 1972.
Max with his daughter Mary at the American Jewish Committee's National Distinguished Leadership Award ceremony.
In 1988, Max Fisher was awarded this elaborate Shield of Zion by the American Zionist Federation of Los Angeles.
1999, Michiganian of the Year Award
Congratulatory letter from George P. Shultz to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.
Jane Sherman talks about her father's success in fundraising.
Max Fisher "A Man of Our Times"
Agreement for the Reconstitution of the Jewish Agency of Israel
Congratulatory letter from Alexander Haig to Max Fisher on his receiving the National Distinguished Leadership Award in 1994.