The Dark Side of the Marketplace; The Plight of the American Consumer

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 240 pages. Appendix. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, soiling, and chips. Request for a review slip laid in. Seal of Senator Magnuson pasted to fep. Warren Grant "Maggie" Magnuson (April 12, 1905 – May 20, 1989) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Washington in Congress for 44 years, first as a Representative from 1937 to 1944, and then as a senator from 1944 to 1981. Magnuson was a member of the Democratic Party. He was Washington state's longest-serving senator, serving over 36 years in the Senate. During his final two years in office, he was the most senior senator and president pro tempore. Magnuson was reelected in 1950, 1956, 1962, 1968, and 1974. He served on the Senate Commerce Committee throughout his tenure in the Senate. At least three important pieces of legislation bear Magnuson's name: the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Chinese Exclusion Repeal Act of 1943 (commonly called the Magnuson Act), and the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. He was also instrumental in keeping supertankers out of Puget Sound, by attaching an amendment to a routine funding reauthorization bill on the Senate and House consent calendars. Jean Carper (born 1932) is a New York Times best-selling author, an American medical journalist, contributing editor to USA Weekend, and author of 24 books. Three of Carper's books have been on the New York Times bestseller list. Carper was CNN's first medical correspondent when the network began in 1980. Senator Warren G. Magnuson has been leading the fight for the rights of the American consumer. Here, in his own firsthand account of deceptive selling practices and their pernicious effects on modern day society, he tells of the pain and injustice that scar the nation's marketplace. It is an angry book, as it exposes the predators whose greed feeds upon the weak, the elderly, the wealthy, the impoverished. And it is a just book, as it sears with equal fire seedy con men one jump ahead of feeble laws, indifferent law men, and great corporations which blink at ethical responsibility. The scope of the book's indictment is broad, laying bare the prevailing schemes and devices for parting victims from their money--schemes that operate from within the law, without the law and, most appalling, with the law as an accomplice. It catalogues the needless product hazards threatening rich and poor alike--from babies' receiving blankets which burn to ashes in seconds, to callously made cigarettes. It documents the manipulation of credit terms and prices; the brutality of collection techniques,; the secrets of space age charlatans, and the gaps remaining in the fabric of protection laws. Exploring the need for bold legal reform to protect the public from goods hazardous to health and life, fraudulent selling practices and credit abuses, The Dark Side of the Marketplace is a call for nothing less than complete consumer democracy. Condition: Good / Good.

Keywords: Consumer Protection, Ghetto, Caveat Emptor, Morality, Ethics, Business, Debtor, Quackery, Cigarette, Advertising, Bait-and-switch, Chain-referral, Credit, Trade Commission, Home Improvement, Installment, Repossession, Product Safety

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