1934-
Consumer Advocate

True Believer.

David versus Goliath.

Background.

Creating an Infrastructure.

Backlash.

A Deeper Commitment.

Behind his concern with consumerism lay a deeper commitment, that of building structures to engage Americans deeply in political action, pulling them away from political parties per se and into the realm of independent citizenship. Being a citizen has been, to Nader, the very essence of a democracy; consumer action is simply a means to that end.

Sources:

Robert F. Buckhorn, Nader: The People's Lawyer (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1972);

Hays Gorey, Nader and the Power of Everyman (New York: Grosset 8c Dunlap, 1975);

Charles McCarry, Citizen Nader (New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972).