People's warrior : John Moss and the fight for freedom of information and consumer rights / / Michael R. Lemov.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 237 p. |
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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.