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Out of Darkness
- Essays on Corporate Power and Civic Resistance, 2012-2022
Engelsk Paperback
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Out of Darkness
- Essays on Corporate Power and Civic Resistance, 2012-2022
Engelsk Paperback

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This collection is classic Nader - exhorting us to make our world and nation a better place, even when faced with unchecked political and corporate power, and perverse market and regulatory incentives. He starts with the declaration that the national Democratic Party bureaucrats are either inept or bewildered. With its record-setting campaign fundraising, he bemoans how the Party can''t seem to figure out how to go on the offensive against the overtly lying, cruel, corrupt, law-breaking, Wall Street over Main Street, Trumpian Republican Party. In another essay he praises Canada, explaining that the majority of citizens love their health care system - Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital, everybody in, nobody out and far less expensive with better outcomes overall. Highlighting heroes like Pete Seeger, Wendell Berry, the journalist Helen Thomas, Nader also celebrates citizens like the lesser-known charismatic George S. Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority who brought immense energy, vision, and ambitious, overdue plans to the forefront for American''s public drinking water. Meanwhile, he doesn''t shy away from enemies - for example Nader slams the evils of Big Pharma''s strength and hold over Congress and infinite greed. Nader also brings American history to the present day with creative twists. ''We need to remember Ben Franklin, our frugal forebear, who coined the phrase ''a penny saved is a penny earned,'' he writes. ''Today he would say ''a trillion BTUs saved is a trillion BTUs earned.'' Ranging from hernia repair to auto safety reports and warnings about lethal super-bugs and global pandemics from 2013, Nader''s essays and newspaper columns will inform and activate his legions of fans.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
640
ISBN-13:
9781644213735
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1644213737
Udg. Dato:
25 jun 2024
Længde:
54mm
Bredde:
156mm
Højde:
230mm
Forlag:
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Oplagsdato:
25 jun 2024
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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