Rules for Radicals
A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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About Rules for Radicals
“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.
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- Audience
- Adult/general
- Commitment
- Standalone or self-contained
- Estimated reading time
- 5.5 hours at about 40 pages per hour
- Length
- Shorter read
- Best for
- Readers seeking books like the anarchist cookbook
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Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky, published in 1989, is a 226-page book for readers who prefer to browse by the experience of a story, not only by its sales category. Its strongest discovery signals include Books Like The Anarchist Cookbook.
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- Print ISBN
- 978-0-679-72113-0
- Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 226
