Later, Ford backed away from this book. When he published it, in 1920, it must have been OK in American society to speak the truth about the Jews, and then in 1927 when he retracted it, society had changed enough that it was no longer considered OK and Ford was embarrassed or at least inconvienced by what had been written in his name, and tried to disown it. A lawsuit brought against Ford by the Jews in 1927 probably had something to do with his disavowing the work, which was published in sections in his newspaper the *Dearborn Independent*. Turned out the paper wasn't so "independent" as those connected with it thought it was.