Richard Lee Grossman (June 26, 1921 – January 27, 2014) was an American publisher.

Early life, education and military service

He was born in Chicago and attended

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, but left before graduating. He served in the

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and worked in advertising before going into the publishing business.

Publishing career

He started his own company, Grossman Publishers, after working for

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. Grossman Publishers was sold to

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in 1968. Later he worked in

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and

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, including as director of the Center for Health in Medicine at the Montefiore Hospital and Medical Center; at

Beth Israel Medical Center Mount Sinai Beth Israel was a 799-bed teaching hospital in Manhattan. It was part of the Mount Sinai Health System, a nonprofit health system formed in September 2013 by the merger of Continuum Health Partners and Mount Sinai Medical Center, and ...

, and the Smith Center for Healing and the Arts’s program for cancer patients.Richard L. Grossman, 92; publisher of Ralph Nader’s ‘Unsafe at Any Speed’
By Adam Bernstein, ''

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'', January 30, 2014 Publisher of

Ralph Nader Ralph Nader (; born February 27, 1934) is an American lawyer and political activist involved in consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform causes. He is a Perennial candidate, perennial presidential candidate. His 1965 book '' ...

's best-seller '' Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile'',Richard Grossman, Crusading Publisher of 1960s, Dies at 92
By Douglas Martin, Feb. 1, 2014, ''

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'' Grossman went on to publish other books by Mr. Nader and his associates on air and water pollution, food and drugs, pesticides and coal-mine safety, all of which helped lead to the passage of major legislation.

Selected books

*''Choosing and Changing: A Guide to Self-Reliance'' (1978) *''The Other Medicines'' (1985) *''A Year With Emerson: A Daybook'' (2003) *''The Tao of Emerson'' (2007) by

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803April 27, 1882), who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionism, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalism, Transcendentalist movement of th ...

Lao Tse Laozi (), also romanized as Lao Tzu among other ways, was a semi-legendary Chinese philosopher and author of the ''Tao Te Ching'' (''Laozi''), one of the foundational texts of Taoism alongside the ''Zhuangzi''. The name, literally meaning ' ...

(Authors), Richard Grossman (Editor, Introduction),

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, .

References

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