In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purposeactivist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnicsin one of Chicago"s most blighted neighborhoods to mapping outstrategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s.He enlisted allies-from Catholic clergymen to labor unionists andblack activists-in battles waged against opponents from slumlordsto the Eastman Kodak corporation. The range of Alinsky"sactivities, the intensity of his beliefs, and his exhilaratingmixture of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pagesof this passionate and inspiring biography.
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