Author:Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader
(1934–)

Ralph Nader

Works

Books

• Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile (1965), an investigation into the lack of safety in the American auto industry
• What to Do with Your Bad Car: An Action Manual for Lemon Owners (with Lowell Dodge and Ralf Hotchkiss, 1971)
• Whistle-Blowing (with Peter J. Petkas and Kate Blackwell, 1972)
• Action for a Change (with Donald Ross, Brett English, and Joseph Highland, 1973)
• The Consumer and Corporate Accountability (1973)
• You and Your Pension (with Kate Blackwell, 1973)
• Verdicts on Lawyers (with Mark Green, 1976)
• Corporate Power in America (with Mark Green, 1977)
• Taming the Giant Corporation (with Joel Seligman and Mark Green, 1977)
• Menace of Atomic Energy (with John Abbotts, 1979)
• Lemon Book: Auto Rights (with Clarence Ditlow and Joyce Kinnard, 1980)
• Who's Poisoning America: Corporate Polluters and Their Victims in the Chemical Age (with Ronald Brownstein and John Richard, 1982)
• Ralph Nader Presents: A Citizen's Guide to Lobbying (with Marc Caplan, 1983)
• Nader on Australia (1985)
• The Big Boys: Power and Position in American Business (with William Taylor, 1986)
• The Frugal Shopper (with Wesley J. Smith, 1992)
• Winning the Insurance Game: The Complete Consumer's Guide to Saving Money (with Wesley J. Smith, 1990)
• Canada Firsts (1992)
• Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety (with Wesley J. Smith, 1993)
• Why Women Pay More: How to Avoid Marketplace Perils (with Frances Cerra Whittelsley, 1993)
• Children First! A Parent's Guide to Fighting Corporate Predators (with Linda Coco, 1996)
• No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America (with Wesley J. Smith, 1998)
• Cutting Corporate Welfare (2000)
• The Ralph Nader Reader (2000)
• Civic Arousal (2004)
• In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000–2003 (2004)
• The Good Fight: Declare Your Independence and Close the Democracy Gap (2004)
• The Seventeen Traditions (2007)
• Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! (2009), a novel
• Crashing the Party: Taking On the Corporate Government in an Age of Surrender (2010)
• Getting Steamed to Overcome Corporatism: Build It Together to Win (2011)
• The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012)
• Told You So: The Big Book of Weekly Columns (2013)
• Unstoppable: The Emerging Left–Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State (2014)
• Return to Sender: Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001–2015 (2015)
• Animal Envy (2016), a novel

Essays

• Statement of Ralph Nader, Announcing His Candidacy for the Green Party's Nomination for President (2000-02-21), an open letter for the American presidential election of that November
• "My Untold Story" (2001-01-25), Nader's take on his 2000 presidential campaign
• "Corporate Patriotism" (2001-11-10), a critique of the relationship between corporate and government interests
• "Whirlwind Wheelchair International" (2002-04-10), praising a non-profit who provides wheelchairs to persons in the Third World
• "Reclaiming Our Commons" (2002-06-27), encouraging citizens to contribute to common cultural goods and resisting corporate attempts to control them
• "The Highway Lobby" (2002-08-30), a history of how mass transit in the United States has been overtaken by corporate interests
• "'Never Separate the Lives You Live from the Words You Speak'" (2002-11-15), an obituary for Senator Paul Wellstone
• "'Safety and Soundness of Financial Institutions'" (2002-11-28), a warning about the power of central banking
• "The Malpractice Crisis" (2003-01-06), a critique of the American Medical Association and insurance industry lobbying
• "Join the Fight for Title IX" (2003-01-30), urging protection of United States Code/Title 20/Chapter 38/Section 1681
• "MSNBC Sabotages Donahue" (2003-03-03), examining right-wing bias in the media
• "The Judicially-Selected Dictator's Pre-Emptive War" (2003-03-23), criticizing the Bush Administration's war in Iraq
• "Puzzling Questions Arise from Bush's Campaign of Fear" (2003-04-03), how Bush used public fear to justify expanding power
• "Big Snapple? Selling the City, Drink by Drink" (2003-09-15), on corporate obfuscation of contracts with New York City
• "If Sam's Club Can Negotiate for Lower Pharmaceutical Prices, Why Can't Uncle Sam?" (2003-11-28), questioning the federal government's inability to compete in the health care market
• "Be Leery of Binding Arbitration Agreements" (2003-12-06), a warning to car buyers
• Ralph Nader's letter to Barack Obama (2008-11-03), an open letter to Barack Obama regarding his impending presidency
• "The Country You Destroyed" (2014-01-03), an open letter to George W. Bush criticizing his presidency
• "Just Say 'No' to More Corporate Clintonism" (2014-07-03), an op-ed urging readers to reject Hillary Clinton as a possible presidential candidate
• Open Letter to Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders (2015-08-08), addressed to Bernie Sanders
• "Lo, the Poor Enlightened Billionaire!" (2015-08-29), a criticism of how plutocracy makes charity necessary instead of justice

Other

• Citizen Power: A Mandate for Change by Mike Gravel (2008) Foreword by Ralph Nader.

Works about Nader

• Sierra Club v. Morton/Dissent Douglas a dissenting opinion in Sierra Club v. Morton written by William O. Douglas citing the Nader Study Group
• Ralph Nader, et al. v. J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State, a 2000 federal lawsuit involving Nader as a party
• Nader v. Blackwell Secretary of State of Ohio, a 2002 Supreme Court decision involving Nader as a party, appealed from the earlier lawsuit