![]() His investigation of corporate crime led him to see a far-reaching problem of accountability. ![]() He has often stood resolute before the juggernaut-and more often than not, the juggernaut has flinched. Beginning with his crusade against the auto industry in the early 1960s, Nader went on to fight for the rights of workers by helping create the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as for a citizen's right for access to government documents in the creation of the Freedom of Information Act. ![]() Nader has tilted against injustice wherever he has found it, and he has found it in spades in corporate America. Reading The Ralph Nader Reader may lead one to view that oversight as less than accidental. After 40 years in the trenches, Ralph Nader, the standard-bearer in the battle for the rights of the disenfranchised and the consummate American citizen, is still being ignored by the mass media. ![]() In a pop media culture dominated by dismissive irony and cloying sentimentalism, how do we talk about a true American political hero? The answer is, we don't. ![]()
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