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A hardened New Orleans cop, Dave Robicheaux, finally tosses in the badge and settles into life on the bayou with his wife. Of course Alinsky is interested in helping the subordinate groups, and the story nicely chronicles his lifetime efforts beginning in the s with juvenile gang behavior and concluding in the s with an assortment of underserved community groups tackling city hall or corporate America.

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People will sometimes say of Saul Alinsky pronise he was as much a tactical showman, getting in the face of his adversary in some very, very public way, than he was a systemic thinker of what he was all about. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.

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The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy

Bob HerculesBruce Orenstein 57 min. The heart of democratic government lies ddemocratic in court decisions, party conventions, or costly TV messages, but in the organized struggles of ordinary people. Alinsky's great genius was to inspire ordinary people so that they really understood that they could make a difference. As they struggle to come to terms with their relationship, something supernatural happens that tests it.

So we thought we might fill in our gaps of knowledge about the man and his ideas.

Democrats and the Legacy of Activist Saul Alinsky : NPR

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One of Alinsky's great facilities was to build bridges and alliances among people and institutions that normally didn't really see eye to eye on a lot of other things and often seemingly had nothing in common. But to this day, I will encounter people on an airplane or somewhere and they'll start talking about Alinsky and they'll say boy, I remember that fart-in.

Democrqtic, Hillary apparently was tempted to return to Chicago after she graduated from Wellesley, to go to Alinsky's training institute for young organizers.

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Tony Award-winning choreographer Bill T. Use the HTML below. Organizers of any stripe alive today owe much of their craft to the life of Saul Alinsky.

NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc. Get the latest from ITVS. Accuracy and availability may vary. His method proved good enough then for the likes of mineworkers' union-chief, John L. Alinsky was a community organizer from Chicago.