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Rules for Radicals

A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

Saul Alinsky

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English
Vintage
26 March 1990
"""This country's leading hell-raiser"" (The Nation) shares his impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructivesocial change and know ""the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.""

First published in 1971 and written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition."

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   Vintage Books ed
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   204g
ISBN:   9780679721130
ISBN 10:   0679721134
Pages:   196
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
The Purpose Of Means and Ends A Word About Words The Education of an Organizer Communication In the Beginning Tactics The Genesis of Tactic Proxy The Way Ahead

Reviews for Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

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>


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