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Unstoppable: The Emerging Left–Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State

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Language
  
English

Pages
  
224 pp

Originally published
  
2014

ISBN
  
9781568584546

OCLC
  
871186827

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Country
  
United States

Publication date
  
2014

Dewey Decimal
  
322/.30973

Author
  
Ralph Nader

Publisher
  
The Nation Institute

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback & Paperback)

Similar
  
Ralph Nader books, Other books

Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State is a non-fiction book by American consumer advocate Ralph Nader, published in 2014 by Nation Books. Nader argues that there are many issues which progressives, libertarians and conservatives can agree on, such as opposition to "free trade" agreements, too much Wall Street influence in Washington, opposition to "corporate welfare", preservation of civil liberties, opposition to foreign military entanglements, etc., and that by working together they can defeat entrenched interest groups and achieve their desired policy outcomes.

According to a review in The Charleston Gazette,

Their agreements often center on our government’s aggressive foreign interventions and wars, under both Republican and Democratic presidents, as well as the huge of amount of federal tax dollars spent to benefit a handful of large corporations and defense contractors.

A review in The Washington Post notes,

It’s a backhanded compliment to Nader that the stampede of corporate lobbyists into Washington starting in the 1970s began as an effort to counter him.

Conservative Grover Norquist has endorsed the book and concept, saying, “Right and left coalitions are areas of principle agreement, on perhaps procedure or even goals. Not a compromise where somebody walks in and gives up part of their soul in order to get something that moves — they think — slightly in the wrong direction, in the hope of doing something else.” Reviews in both conservative and liberal publications tend to focus on Nader's career and on describing the content of the book. However, a review in Alternet suggests that "The legendary consumer advocate has lost his political compass."

The book was the subject of interviews with Mr. Nader on C-SPAN, Democracy Now!, and the The Tavis Smiley Show.

A community gathering based on the book has been held in Washington, D.C.

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Unstoppable: The Emerging Left–Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State Wikipedia