Lawyer, public citizen, role model. Went from Harvard Law to hellraising: his Unsafe at Any Speed drew the ire (and surveillance) of General Motors - Nader revealed the hazards of the rear-engine Chevy Corvair; the whole notion of product recalls grew out of this brouhaha. His "Nader's Raiders" of the 70s moved into general consumer-safety issues. In more recent decades, he has added fixing defective politics to his "to do" list. Past Green Party presidential candidate.