Description: This primer tells the "have-nots" how they can organize to achieve real political power for the practice of true democracy.
Review Quotes:
"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." --The Nation
"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." --Chicago Sun-Times "Alinsky is that rarity in American life, a superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher." --Charles E. Silberman "He cannot be bought; he cannot be intimidated; and he breaks all the rules." --The Economist (London) "I consider him to be one of the few really great men of our century." --Jacques Maritain