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Also by Ralph Nader:

The Seventeen Solutions, October 2012
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"Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!", October 2009
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The Seventeen Traditions, February 2007
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THE SEVENTEEN TRADITIONS
By: Ralph Nader

Regan Books
February 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
160 pages
ISBN: 0061238279
EAN: 9780061238277
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Political

My boyhood in a small town in Connecticut was shaped by my family, my friends, our neighbors, my chores and hobbies, the town's culture and environment, its schools, libraries, factories, and businesses, their workers, and by storms that came from nowhere to disrupt everything. . . . Yet childhood in any family is a mysterious experience. . . . What shapes the mind, the personality, the character?

So begins this unexpected and extraordinary book by Ralph Nader. Known for his lifetime of selfless activism, Nader now looks back to the earliest days of his own life, to his serene and enriching childhood in bucolic Winsted, Connecticut. From listening to learning, from patriotism to argument, from work to simple enjoyment, Nader revisits seventeen key traditions he absorbed from his parents, his siblings, and the people in his community, and draws from them inspiring lessons for today's society. Warmly human, rich with sensory memories and lasting wisdom, it offers a kind of modern-day parable of how we grow from children into responsible adults—a reminder of a time when nature and community were central to the way we all learned and lived.

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