People's warrior John Moss and the fight for freedom of information and consumer rights /

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Main Author: Lemov, Michael R., 1935-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Md. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
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Table of 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.