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Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism

Maybe someday

34

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

28/100

Critics

40/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Paul Sabin

Publisher:

W. W. Norton & Company

Date:

August 10, 2021

The story of the dramatic postwar struggle over the proper role of citizens and government in American society.

What The Reviewers Say

Kim Phillips-Fein,
The New Republic
For people who mainly think of Nader as the third-party candidate who split the Florida vote in the 2000 presidential election, the seriousness and care with which Sabin treats him as a political thinker and strategist may be surprising.
Thomas Karel,
Library Journal
This important book will be useful for students of late 20th-century politics and society, and of the legacy of public interest movements..
Timothy Noah,
The New York Times Book Review
... an elegantly argued and meticulously documented attempt to place Nader within the liberal tradition.

Kirkus
... focused.