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    Reveille for Radicals

    Author Saul Alinsky
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    Knopf | Vintage
    On sale Oct 23, 1989 | 256 Pages | 9780679721123
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    First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American radicalism. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky, through the concept and practice of community organizing, was able to embody for his era both the urgency of radical political action and the imperative of rational political discourse. This is Alinsky's classic and impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.”
    Part I: Call Me Rebel
    1. What is a Radical?
    2. Where is the Radical Today?
    3. The Crisis

    Part II: The Building of People's Organizations
    4. The Program
    5. Native Leadership
    6. Community Traditions and Organizations
    7. Organizational Tactics
    8. Conflict Tactics
    9. Popular Education
    10. Psychological Observations on Mass Organization
    11. Reveille for Radicals

    Afterword to the Vintage Edition
    Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909 and educated first in the streets of that city and then in its university. Graduate work at the University of Chicago in criminology introduced him to the Al Capone gang, and later to Joliet State Prison, where he studied prison life. He founded what is known today as the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. His work in organizing the poor to fight for their rights as citizens has been internationally recognized. In the late 1930s he organized the Back of the Yards area in Chicago (the neighborhood made famous in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle). Subsequently, through the Industrial Areas Foundation which he began in 1940, Mr. Alinsky and his staff helped to organize communities not only in Chicago but throughout the country. He later turned his attentions to the middle class, creating a training institute for organizers. He died in 1972. View titles by Saul Alinsky
    “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

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    First published in 1946 and updated in 1969 with a new introduction and Afterword, this volume represents the fullest statement of the political philosophy and practical methodology of one of the most important figures in the history of American radicalism. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky, through the concept and practice of community organizing, was able to embody for his era both the urgency of radical political action and the imperative of rational political discourse. This is Alinsky's classic and impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.”

    Table of Contents

    Part I: Call Me Rebel
    1. What is a Radical?
    2. Where is the Radical Today?
    3. The Crisis

    Part II: The Building of People's Organizations
    4. The Program
    5. Native Leadership
    6. Community Traditions and Organizations
    7. Organizational Tactics
    8. Conflict Tactics
    9. Popular Education
    10. Psychological Observations on Mass Organization
    11. Reveille for Radicals

    Afterword to the Vintage Edition

    Author

    Saul Alinsky was born in Chicago in 1909 and educated first in the streets of that city and then in its university. Graduate work at the University of Chicago in criminology introduced him to the Al Capone gang, and later to Joliet State Prison, where he studied prison life. He founded what is known today as the Alinsky ideology and Alinsky concepts of mass organization for power. His work in organizing the poor to fight for their rights as citizens has been internationally recognized. In the late 1930s he organized the Back of the Yards area in Chicago (the neighborhood made famous in Upton Sinclair's The Jungle). Subsequently, through the Industrial Areas Foundation which he began in 1940, Mr. Alinsky and his staff helped to organize communities not only in Chicago but throughout the country. He later turned his attentions to the middle class, creating a training institute for organizers. He died in 1972. View titles by Saul Alinsky

    Praise

    “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

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