Rules for Radicals
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Format: Paperback
ISBN: 0679721134
ISBN-13: 9780679721130
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date: October, 1989
Length: 224 Pages
Weight: Unavailable
Dimensions: 7.9 X 5.1 X 0.7 inches
Language: English
   
   

Rules for Radicals

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The father of modern community organization, Saul Alinsky taught a generation of activists and politicians how to effectively construct social change. In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky writes with passion and intelligence, carefully outlining “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Indispensable since its first ...
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  A real eye-opener

This book is a must read for all to understand radicalism and how their goals are achieved. This book was essentially the blueprint for the Obama campaign. Saul Alinsky and his views are admired by both Obama and Hillary Clinton.
 
  How to destroy society

This book is disturbing, but well worth reading, since Obama, who, you will remember, was himself a self-described community organizer, is obviously following its instructions. The author essentially provides instruction on how, legally, to sabotage a functioning society. These devious methods can be used for good, if the society itself is so far gone as to defy remediation by less drastic means, or for evil, if the saboteurs aim to simply seize power for themselves. Read the book, and judge for yourself.
 
  Horror story

I rated this book 5 stars for one reason, and one reason only-- NOT because I like the book, but because it is very informative.
This may well be the scariest thing I have ever read in my life!!
It was very enlightening to read this book and realizing that several of our current leaders in the U.S. not only read and studied this book in college, etc.....but, that some actually believe in what it says and practice the principles of Saul Alinsky (even if you don't want to believe it-- get busy and do some "homework" on the topic. Facts are facts.)
After understanding all of that and seeing the content of this book, if you aren't shocked, may God have mercy on your soul.
 
  Understanding Obama

Having grown up in the sixties, remembering and participating in school sit-ins I was eager to reacquaint my self with a long lost name from the past. Saul D. Alinsky has been in the news again over the past year because of the campaign of Barak Obama the Chicago community organizer, turned politician.

This book, "Rules for Radicals" is must reading for anyone who desires insight into what is ahead for this country. There are several sections of the book, which after you read them, you think isn't that just what happened, or oh that's why he did this. The book is a collection of ideas, situations and anecdotes spun into an easygoing yarn of the life of a community organizer. An organizer helps the have-nots get what the haves have, and then he goes and helps the have-not's get what the haves have and then ... well you get the idea.

A must read for the curious and politically inclined.
 
  THE Blueprint

I found this book very enlightening. I am not a politician but I wanted to know why people were comparing Obama to Alinsky! I beleive that this book is the blueprint and map that Obama used to get where he is now and God help us on where he is leading us!