People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky

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Saul Alinsky according to Time Magazine in 1970 was a "prophet of power to the people " someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American." People Power introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinskys vision across the United States: --Fred Ross Cesar Chavez Dolores Huerta and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers Association --Nicholas von Hoffman and the Woodlawn Organization --Tom Gaudette and the Northwest Community Organization --Ed Chambers Richard Harmon and the Industrial Areas Foundation --Shel Trapp Gale Cincotta and National Peoples Action --Heather Booth Midwest Academy and Citizen Action --Wade Rathke and ACORN Weaving classic texts with interviews and their own context-setting commentaries the editors of People Power provide the first comprehensive history of Alinsky-based organizing in the tumultuous period from 1955 to 1980 when the key organizing groups in the United States took form. Many of these selections--previously available only on untranscribed audiotapes or in difficult-to-read mimeograph or Xerox formats--appear in print here for the first time.