{"product_id":"9780826520432","title":"People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky","description":"Saul Alinsky, according to \u003ci\u003eTime Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e in 1970, was a \"prophet of power to the people,\" someone who \"has possibly antagonized more people . . . than any other living American.\" \u003ci\u003ePeople Power\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the major organizers who adopted and modified Alinsky's vision across the United States:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e--Fred Ross, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, and the Community Service Organization and National Farm Workers Association\u003cbr\u003e--Nicholas von Hoffman and the Woodlawn Organization\u003cbr\u003e--Tom Gaudette and the Northwest Community Organization\u003cbr\u003e--Ed Chambers, Richard Harmon, and the Industrial Areas Foundation\u003cbr\u003e--Shel Trapp, Gale Cincotta, and National People's Action\u003cbr\u003e--Heather Booth, Midwest Academy, and Citizen Action\u003cbr\u003e--Wade Rathke and ACORN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaving classic texts with interviews and their own context-setting commentaries, the editors of \u003ci\u003ePeople Power\u003c\/i\u003e provide the first comprehensive history of Alinsky-based organizing in the tumultuous period from 1955 to 1980, when the key organizing groups in the United States took form. Many of these selections--previously available only on untranscribed audiotapes or in difficult-to-read mimeograph or Xerox formats--appear in print here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanderbilt University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129382158576,"sku":"9780826520432","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826520432_p0.jpg?v=1763756299","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826520432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}