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People's warrior : John Moss and the fight for freedom of information and consumer rights
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People's warrior : John Moss and the fight for freedom of information and consumer rights / Michael R. Lemov.
ISBN
9781611470246 (cloth : alk. paper)
1611470242 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781611474718 (paper: alk. paper)
161147471X (paper: alk. paper)
9781611470253 (ebk.)
1611470250 (ebk.)
Published
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2011.
Physical Description
xxi, 237 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Prologue: the consumer decade
Troubled roots: a little town in the valley
Dangerous ground: the California Assembly
I went to bed a loser: the road to Congress
The people's right to know: a distant shore
The Freedom of Information Act: perilous journey
The Product Safety Act: consumer as guinea pig
Reviving the Federal Trade Commission: the Magnuson-Moss Act
Investor protection: breaking Wall Street's monopoly
Cars, chemicals, and Arab oil: changing times
Consumer protection in retreat: two crushing defeats
Freedom of information today: the torture memos
Epilogue: the legacy.
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