Richard Grossman, who as a new publisher in the 1960s "looking for a big book" signed a contract that gave a young lawyer named Ralph Nader a $3,000 advance for Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-in Dangers of the American Automobile, died last week, the New York Times reported. He was 92. Grossman sold his publishing business to Viking in 1968 and "went on to become a psychotherapist, with offices in Manhattan and Salisbury, Conn.; an authority on alternative medicine; and a published expert on Ralph Waldo Emerson," the Times noted.
