Title: Hit & run : the rise--and fall?--of Ralph Nader /
Authors: Toledano, Ralph de, 1916-2007
Publisher: Arlington House,
Year: 1975
Subjects: Nader, Ralph.
Abstract: Author of "Unsafe at Any Speed," Nader is a polarizing political activist, lecturer and attorney noted for his work in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. He has been directly credited with the passage of several landmark consumer protection legislation. This book examines the controversial figure in the context of the consumerist movement, the muckraking tradition, the New Left onslaught on the nation's values, proposing that Nader's national socialism has been a harmful force that aims to start a revolution.
Contents: Savonarola in blue serge -- Nader and the press -- The beginnings -- Untrue by any standard -- The war on the automobile -- The children's crusade -- Those Nader reports -- Giving congress the business -- All that money -- Nader as legislator -- The environmentalist frolic -- A Nader potpourri -- Naderism, consumerism, and mudraking -- Politics and power -- The future of a zealot.