Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals

ISBN-13:	9780679721130
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	10/23/1989
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	56,743
Product dimensions:	5.19(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.59(d)

“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.”First 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.