The Seventeen Traditions
by Ralph Nader
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Author: Ralph NaderEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-01-30
ISBN: 0061238279
Number of pages: 150
Publisher: Harper
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Book Review: Ralph Nader Reminds Us To Think For Ourselves
Summary: 5 Stars
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Book Review: The Seventeen Traditions by Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader and his team protest oil industry speculation, manipulation, and conglomeration of our gas prices. Not long ago you saw Mr. Nader and his team out at the American Petroleum Institute in Washington, D.C. Why? Ralph Nader, a Presidential hopeful campaigns with this pledge in regard to the oil industry, "In recent years, the big five oil companies - ExxonMobil, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips, BP and Shell - have booked record profits - a big chunk of which result from oil industry market manipulation and anti-competitive practices. (For example, oil companies have exploited their market position to intentionally restrict refining capacity by driving smaller, independent refiners out of business.)
Nader/Gonzalez would strictly regulate the oil industry - clamping down on speculators and enforcing the antitrust laws.
Nader/Gonzalez would also revoke federal subsidies to the oil industry, repeal multi-billion tax breaks and impose a windfall profits tax to fuel a transition to a solar energy economy."
Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, five-time Presidential candidate, and lawyer, has been called one of the 100 Most Influential Americans in the Twentieth Century by Time Magazine. He is the man behind the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. His work has led to the passage of legislation which has improved everyday safety for all Americans. Ralph Nader believes that anyone can "get the ball rolling" by asking citizen-minded questions which induce the exposure of corporate and governmental negligence and corruption.
Ralph Nader was not born a consumer crusader, he was taught ethics and values at home as a child. In his book The Seventeen Traditions, Ralph Nader wishes to pass on to everyone, his knowledge of "what forces shaped" him. He writes, "I had a lucky choice of parents." As a first generation American, Ralph had the benefit of connecting with both the Old World and the New World, taking the best from both.
Ralph Nader holds true to seventeen traditions taught to him at home by his parents. Nathra Nader and Rose Bouziane Nader were Lebanese immigrants to the United States. Both embodied the essence of what it means to become naturalized citizens: relocate to the other side of the world, learn the English language, and raise children in new culture. They valued what they had--their rights. Mr. and Mrs. Nader also valued what they could do--make a point to a politician dining in their restaurant, raising money for the Red Cross, supporting an addition on their local hospital. Their traditions, as recalled by Mr. Nader, all began in the home, and were instrumental in forming the minds of Ralph and his siblings: listening, family dinners, health, know your history, scarcity--more is not better, sibling equality, education and argument--makes for lawyers, discipline, simple enjoyments, reciprocity, independent thinking, charity, work ethic, business, patriotism, solitude, civics.
Ralph Nader reminds us, as citizens during this crucial time in our country's history to think--think each of us for ourselves. Learn the facts, become involved, and be an example to our own children. Presidential candidate, activist, and author Ralph Nader's The Seventeen Traditions is not just the reminiscences from the autobiography of a great man, but rather, a guide for all Americans on how we can improve our families, our towns, and our country. What will you do for your country?
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Summary of The Seventeen Traditions
My boyhood in a small town in Connecticut was shaped by my family, my friends, our neighbors, my chores and hobbies, the town's culture and environment, its schools, libraries, factories, and businesses, their workers, and by storms that came from nowhere to disrupt everything. . . . Yet childhood in any family is a mysterious experience. . . . What shapes the mind, the personality, the character?
So begins this unexpected and extraordinary book by Ralph Nader. Known for his lifetime of selfless activism, Nader now looks back to the earliest days of his own life, to his serene and enriching childhood in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut. From listening to learning, from patriotism to argument, from work to simple enjoyment, Nader revisits seventeen key traditions he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today's society. Warmly human, rich with sensory memories and lasting wisdom, it offers a kind of modern-day parable of how we grow from children into responsible adults?a reminder of a time when nature and community were central to the way we all learned and lived.
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