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Title

The Ralph Nader reader / foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich.

Author

Nader, Ralph.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Seven Stories Press, c2000.

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Description

x, 441 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Features Nader's essential writings from 1956 to the present and follows the evolution of his political thinking from consumer advocate to presidential candidate."--Jacket flap

Alternative Title

Reader

Subject

• Political participation > United States
• Public interest > United States
• Consumer protection > United States

Genre/Form

• Essay
• essays.
• Essays
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• On the presidency and democracy : Statement of Ralph Nader announcing his candidacy for the Green Party's nomination for president (2000) ; Perspective on the presidential race: a way out of the corporatist grip (1996) ; The Greens & the presidency: a voice, not an echo (1996) ; Democratic revolution in an age of autocracy (1993) ; Citizen-side politics: breaking out of the two-party rut (1992) ; The Concord Principles: an agenda for a new initiatory democracy (1992) ; Knowledge helps citizens, secrecy helps bureaucrats (1986) -- On the corporate state and the corporatizing of America : Why Microsoft must be stopped, co-authored by James Love (1998) ; U.S. companies should pledge allegiance (1996) ; Bank mergers skip along right past the customers (1995) ; Taming corporations: how Clinton can build democracy (1992) ; Run the government like the best American corporations (1988) ; Corporations are not persons, co-authored by Carl J. Mayer (1988) ; The megacorporate world of Ronald Reagan (1984) ; Reforming corporate governance (1984) ; Corporate power in America (1980) ; Is bigness bad for business? co-authored by Mark Green (1979) ; How to recognize capitalists and corporatists (1978) ; Who rules the giant corporation, co-authoried by Mark Green and Joel Seligman (1976) ; Introduction to the company state: Ralph Nader's study group report on DuPont in Delaware (1971) ; Taming the corporate tiger (1966) -- On corporate welfare : Cutting corporate welfare: testimony before the Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives (1999) ; It's time to end corporate welfare as we know it (1996) ; Looting the medicine chest: how Bristol-Myers Squibb made off with the public's cancer research co-authored by James Love (1993) ; Rip-off, inc. (1991) ; How to put the punch back in politics (1990) ; Corporate welfare state is on a roll (1990) ; No more bailouts! (1990) ; Remarks before the conference on property tax reform (1970).
• On opposing the World Trade Organization (WTO) : Reject this flawed treaty (1994) ; Trade in secrets (1994) ; WTO means rule by unaccountable tribunals (1994) ; A pull-down trade agreement: global corporations push WTO declaration of dependence (1994) -- On consumer rights : Unsafe at any altitude (1999) ; The consumer movement looks ahead (1984) ; The burned children: 4000 fatal fabric fires (1971) ; The great American gyp (1968) ; Keynote address presented to the consumer assembly (1967) ; We're still in the jungle (1967) ; The safe car you can't buy (1959) -- On tort reform : Ralph Nader on tort reform (1995) ; Tort 'reform' would aid wrongdoers (1995) ; The assault on injured victims' rights (1988) ; 'Brown lung': the cotton-mill killer (1971) ; They're still breathing (1968) -- On citizen action and social change : Making a difference (1995) ; Princeton's class of '55's gift is for the students and the world (1994) ; Children: toward their civic skills and civic involvement (1992) ; Introduction to more action for a change (1987) ; Introduction to a public citizen's action manual (1973) ; Toward an initiatory democracy (1972) ; We need a new kind of patriotism (1971) -- On practicing law : Opinion (1997) ; Leadership and the law (1991) ; Ralph Nader asks law students to change (1972) ; Crumbling of the old order: law schools and law firms (1969) -- On the information age : Supersonic brain shredder (1998) ; Digital democracy in action (1996) ; The dossier invades the home (1971) ; Remarks before the Public Affairs Symposium on "The Invasion of Privacy in Our Computerized Society" (1971) -- On the media : A response to Robert W. McChesney's proposal for media reform (1998) ; Microradio: opening the airwaves for more democracy (1999) ; Public is not served by media's refusal to ask specific questions (2000) ; TV news failing in its mission (1996) ; Let's put the audience on the air (1987) ; Must candidates avoid free TV? (1984).

ISBN

1583220577 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^00030789^

OCLC

43894242

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library