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Saul Alinsky

The community organizing pioneer that influenced both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. posted Mar 27, 2007 1:28pm EDT Alinsky practically invented the grassroots organizing that transformed the political landscape in the 1960s. His Rules for Radicals is a classic work on political activism. Now he is back in the news because of his connection to the two Democratic presidential frontrunners. Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky and Barack Obama worked at a non-profit organization that Alinsky founded.

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Cute picture of Hillary as a college senior — her thesis was later suppressed by the Clinton whitehouse

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“Let Them Call Me Rebel,” the excellent biography of Saul Alinsky by Sanford Horwitt, available on amazon.com

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Before he was a superstar, Obama wrote a chapter on community organizing inspired by Alinsky

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“Alinsky is starting to look like one of the most important theorists of election 2008”

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Blogger gives thumbs up to Alinsky’s book

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Alinsky’s radical persona could hurt Hillary by association

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Cute picture of Hillary as a college senior — her thesis was later suppressed by the Clinton whitehouse

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MSNBC reports on controversy surrounding Hillary’s thesis

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Activist claims that both Hillary and Obama abandoned Alinsky and went mainstream

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WaPo: “Both Obama and Clinton admired Alinsky’s appeal for small-d democracy”

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Wikipedia entry on Saul Alinsky

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Buy Rules for Radicals, the classic book on creative grassroots organizing

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Alinsky: What Clinton and Obama Have in Common

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