Saul Alinsky: Rules for Radicals – Book Review
Simon Davies
Vol 5, Issue 1 · pp. 95–101 · 2019 · DOI https://doi.org/10.63961/2025.102
Excerpt
I was fourteen years of age when I first encountered Saul Alinsky’s inspiring and timeless work Rules for Radicals. All those decades ago—angry and confused—I was ploughing through a turbulent puberty, vowing to cause havoc to a school system that was harsh and prescriptive. Alinsky’s book became my bedrock and was the gateway to a subsequent life of activism.
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