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  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806262
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $59.99

Return to Sender

Unanswered Letters to the President, 2001-2015




The prescient but ignored letters of warning and advice sent to Presidents Bush and Obama by Ralph Nader, America's first citizen.

In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. Each letter offers frank advice and shines light on government mishaps and missed opportunities for progress. With his signature dry wit, Nader holds these Presidents to their campaign promises. He also boldly points to the ignoble and sometimes heinous decisions made in pursuit of party platforms and misguided ideals. Covering a range of still-current topics--including the Iraq war, torture, the Crimean annexation, the minimum wage, worker's health legislation, and corporatism--these letters were wholesale ignored on receipt. Here they are reproduced to refute that fate in the spirit of true and healthy democracy.

  • Published: 15 April 2015
  • ISBN: 9781609806262
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 304
  • RRP: $59.99

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Praise for Return to Sender

"What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he moved beyond social criticism to effective political action."--The New York Times

"Ralph Nader is our indispensable voice of outrage against corporate corruption, greed, invasion of privacy, and abuse of power."--James K. Galbraith, author of Created Unequal: the Crisis in American Pay

"No one in our history--no president, no senator, no one--has changed us more for the better than Ralph Nader."--Harvey Wasserman, author of Harvey Wasserman's History of the United States