Many of these selections-previously available only on untranscribed audiotapes or in difficult-to-read mimeograph or Xerox formats-appear in print here for the first time. than any other living American.' People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States: -Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers Association -Nicholas von Hoffman and the Woodlawn Organization -Tom Gaudette and the Northwest Community Organization -Ed Chambers, Richard Harmon, and the Industrial Areas Foundation -Shel Trapp, Gale Cincotta, and National People's Action -Heather Booth, Midwest Academy, and Citizen Action -Wade Rathke and ACORN Weaving classic texts with interviews and their own context-setting commentaries, the editors of People Power provide the first comprehensive history of Alinsky-based organizing in the tumultuous period from 1955 to 1980, when the key organizing groups in the United States took form.

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a 'prophet of power to the people,' someone who 'has possibly antagonized more people. 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political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.This book will combine a broad selection of unpublished or difficult to access texts by well-known community organizers with a history of this largely unknown period.

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. 'First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know 'the difference between being a realistic political and being a rhetorical one'. Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, some underlining in pink highlighter on a few pages, no inscriptions, un-creased spine (see photographs) Vintage Books, Random House, 1989, ISBN 0679721134, paperback A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

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