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.

This important book will be useful for students of late 20th-century politics and society, and of the legacy of public interest movements..

... an elegantly argued and meticulously documented attempt to place Nader within the liberal tradition.

... focused.

... enlightening.