Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals

Alinsky, Saul David

ISBN 10: 0394443411 / ISBN 13: 9780394443416

Published by Random House, New York, 1971

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New York: Random House, 1971. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. Fifth printing. Black boards with gilt lettering along the spine. Spine has the slightest of leans to it, otherwise a handsome, tight copy. Unclipped jacket is in lovely shape. Book and jacket are both near fine. Seller Inventory # 003446

Bibliographic Details

Title: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for ...

Publisher: Random House, New York

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis:

Guides young revolutionaries in the art of human communication and explains the tactics of organizing others to work within the system for social change

Review:

"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