RT @VintageAnchor: Saul Alinsky's RULES FOR RADICALS gets a boost, thanks to Newt Gingrich bringing him back to readers' minds. Link ...
RT @lynnsweet: Will be on MSNBC's "Hardball" about 5:30 p.m. EST on Saul Alinsky. My column on how Newt is copying Alinsky playbook. htt ...
RT @HowardKurtz: Newt pulls it out - almost went whole debate without mentioning Saul Alinsky!
Saul Alinsky is back from the grave and man is he pissed: @SFuckinAlinksy #FLDebate
Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was a Jewish American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared in Playboy magazine to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left." He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals. In the course of nearly four decades of political organizing, Alinsky has received much criticism, but has also gained praise from many left wing public figures. His organizing skills were focused on improving the living conditions of poor communities across North America. In the 1950s, he began turning his attention to improving conditions of the African American ghettos, beginning with Chicago's and later traveling to other ghettos in California, Michigan, New York City, and a dozen other "trouble spots". His ideas were later adapted by some U.S. college students and other young organizers in the late 1960s and formed part of their strategies for organizing on campus and beyond. Time magazine once wrote that "American democracy is being altered by Alinsky's ideas," and conservative author William F. Buckley said he was