This country's leading hell-raiser...has set down some of the rules of the game. No one has had more experience or has been more successful at it than Alinsky. --<i>The Nation</i> Alinsky's techniques and teachings influenced generations of community and labor organizers, including the church-based group hiring a young [Barack] Obama to work on Chicago's South Side in the 1980s.... Alinsky impressed a young [Hillary] Clinton, who was growing up in Park Ridge at the time Alinsky was the director of the Industrial Areas Foundation in Chicago. --<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></p> </p> Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher. --Charles E. Silberman</p> </p> He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules. --<i>The Economist</i> (London)</p> </p> I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century. --Jacques Maritain</p>