Rules for Radicals

Overview

“This country's leading hell-raiser" (The Nation) shares his 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.”"A superlative organizer, strategist, and tactician who is also a social philosopher.” —Charles E. SilbermanFirst 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.

Details

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010-06-30

Pages

224

Language

EN

Categories

Political Science / Political Ideologies / Radicalism, Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy

ISBN-13

9780307756893