Let Them Call Me Rebel Saul Alinsky: His Life and Legacy

by HORWITT, SANFORD D.

• ISBN13: 9780679734185
• ISBN10: 067973418X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-03-31
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organizing working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighborhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. The range of Alinsky's activities, his intense beliefs, and his exhilarating mix of crudeness and calculation almost vibrate off the pages of this passionate and inspiring biography.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xi
Introduction	xiii
Sarah's Son	3	(7)
Helene and the University of Chicago	10	(8)
Prison Bug Ward and Other Stories	18	(16)
A New Hero	34	(13)
The Area Project	47	(9)
Life in the Jungle	56	(11)
Organizing the Back of the Yards	67	(10)
New Friends in High Places	77	(11)
The Great John L. and Presidential Politics	88	(14)
``Miracle of Democracy''	102	(18)
War Years	120	(15)
Battle for Survival	135	(28)
Reveille for Radicals!	163	(23)
The Cruelest Summer	186	(26)
Good Fortune, Bad Luck	212	(27)
An Anti-Anti-Communist	239	(17)
Pennies from Heaven	256	(19)
The Big Eight Ball	275	(28)
Race	303	(12)
Church's Last Stand	315	(34)
Tears of Joy	349	(14)
Civil Rights in Chicago	363	(27)
Woodlawn	390	(35)
Black and White	425	(25)
Smugtown and Stardom	450	(56)
New Career	506	(13)
``Be Thou a Man''	519	(30)
Epilogue	543	(6)
Notes	549	(30)
Major Works Cited in Notes	579	(2)
Index	581