Feature Title
"Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us!"
by Ralph Nader
In this “practical utopia” Warren Buffett invites sixteen super-rich individuals around a table to save America. It is September 2005. Buffett has just gone to New Orleans to see the destruction of Hurricane Katrina first-hand and is moved to re-structure his vast personal wealth to help the people of this country. And he wants others to do the same.
In an unprecedented genre-bending book, Nader’s billionaires work together to unionize Walmart, rebuild New Orleans with a speed and efficiency FEMA could only dream about, advance clean and transparent elections, effectively clean up the environment, and otherwise galvanize Congress and the corporate behemoths to be accountable to the people.
The New York Times has written, "What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action." The author who knows the most about citizen action, here returns us to the literature of American social movements—to Edward Bellamy, to Upton Sinclair, to John Steinbeck, to Stephen Crane—reminding us in the process that changing the body politic of America starts with imagination.
About the Author
Named by The Atlantic as one of the 100 most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader has helped us drive safer cars, eat healthier food, breathe better air, drink cleaner water, and work in safer environments for more than four decades.
The crusading attorney first made headlines in 1965 with his book Unsafe at Any Speed, a scathing indictment that lambasted the auto industry for producing unsafe vehicles. The book led to congressional hearings and automobile safety laws passed in 1966, including the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. He was instrumental in the creation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC), and the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Ralph Nader’s most popular books include, from Seven Stories, In Pursuit of Justice, and the Ralph Nader Reader. His most recent bestselling books were The Good Fight and The Seventeen Traditions, both published by HarperCollins. “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” is Nader’s first work of imagination.
Reviews
"Only The Super-Rich Can Save Us provides better insight into Nader's psyche than any of the biographies published about him to date.... Unlike Rand's treatise, which sets forth a philosophy, Nader has responded with a vision and detailed blueprint for returning the United States to the ideals set forth by its founding fathers." --Globe and Mail
$29.95 Cloth, 732 pp
978-1-58322-903-3
Seven Stories Press