Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon - Softcover

Martin, Justin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738208574 ISBN 13: 9780738208572

Publisher: Perseus Books, 2003

Synopsis

As a public figure, Ralph Nader is virtually without parallel, playing a lead role on the national stage for nearly four decades. Since the time he rattled the automotive industry with Unsafe at Any Speed, Nader has played David to a series of formidable Goliaths-General Motors, Microsoft, the pharmaceutical and auto insurance industries-until 2000 when he took on both major party political candidates. In this last campaign he managed to skew the election while endangering the very causes he had spent his life espousing. The mystery and controversy surrounding him will draw readers to this revealing portrait.

About this title

Synopsis

"A fine job of bringing Nader's impassioned, eccentric and notoriously private life into full, three-dimensional view."- Washington Post Book World . As a public figure, Ralph Nader is virtually without parallel, playing a lead role on the national stage for nearly four decades. Since the time he rattled the automotive industry with Unsafe at Any Speed , Nader has played David to a series of formidable Goliaths-General Motors, Microsoft, the pharmaceutical and auto insurance industries-until 2000 when he took on both major party political candidates. In this last campaign he managed to skew the election while endangering the very causes he had spent his life espousing. The mystery and controversy surrounding him will draw readers to this revealing portrait.

About the Author

Justin Martin is a former staff writer at Fortune magazine whose work has also appeared in Newsweek, Worth, Travel & Leisure, and ESPN magazines. He lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Perseus Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0738208574
• ISBN 13: 9780738208572
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272