Out Of Darkness : Essays on Corporate Power and Civic Resistance, 2012-2022

This collection is classic Nader - exhorting us to make our world and nation a better place, even when faced with unchecked political and corporate power, and perverse market and regulatory incentives.

He starts with the declaration that the national Democratic Party bureaucrats are either inept or bewildered.

With its record-setting campaign fundraising, he bemoans how the Party can't seem to figure out how to go on the offensive against the overtly lying, cruel, corrupt, law-breaking, Wall Street over Main Street, Trumpian Republican Party.

In another essay he praises Canada, explaining that the majority of citizens love their health care system - Medicare-for-all, free choice of doctor and hospital, everybody in, nobody out and far less expensive with better outcomes overall.

Highlighting heroes like Pete Seeger, Wendell Berry, the journalist Helen Thomas, Nader also celebrates citizens like the lesser-known charismatic George S.

Hawkins, general manager of the District of Columbia