Out of darkness : essays on corporate power and civic resistance, 2012-2022 / Ralph Nader ; introduction by Lewis Lapham.
| Author/creator | Nader, Ralph author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : Seven Stories Press, 2024. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Philosophical ruminations -- On Donald Trump -- On the COVID-19 pandemic and health care -- On environment, health, and safety -- On corporate crime and corporate welfare -- On voting and the 2012, 2016, and 2020 elections -- On the media -- On imperial power and the military -- On money, banking, and class -- Heroes -- On the law and corporate power -- On Congress and civic engagement -- Selected letters. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| LCCN | 2023043348 |
| ISBN | 9781644213735 |
| ISBN | 1644213737 |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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