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Saul Alinsky

1909 - 1972

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Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909 – June 12, 1972) was an American community activist and political theorist. His work through the Chicago-based Industrial Areas Foundation helping poor communities organize to press demands upon landlords, politicians, bankers and business leaders won him national recognition and notoriety. Responding to the impatience of a New Left generation of activists in the 1960s, Alinsky – in his widely cited Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer (1971) – defended the arts both of confrontation and of compromise involved in community organizing as keys to the struggle for social justice. Beginning in the 1990s, Alinsky's reputation was revived by commentators on the political right as a source of tactical inspiration for the Republican Tea Party movement and subsequently, by virtue of indirect associations with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as the alleged source of a radical Democratic political agenda. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Saul Alinsky is the 4,695th most popular writer (up from 4,717th in 2019), the 7,048th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,402nd in 2019) and the 534th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Saul Alinsky ranks 4,695 out of 7,302. Before him are Roy Jacobsen, Adikavi Pampa, Uğur Mumcu, Ivar Lo-Johansson, Richard Pococke, and Elisaveta Bagriana. After him are Patrik Ouředník, Juan José Arreola, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Cesar Millan, Jane Wilde, and Tahar Djaout.

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Among people born in 1909, Saul Alinsky ranks 276. Before him are Clara Calamai, James Agee, Margaret Mee, Massimo Pallottino, Reinhold Münzenberg, and Ramón Villeda Morales. After him are Licia Albanese, Uku Masing, Ernst Andersson, Haruko Sugimura, Ahmed Bahnini, and Willi Horn. Among people deceased in 1972, Saul Alinsky ranks 179. Before him are Rudolf Friml, Vera Inber, Walter Lang, Prithviraj Kapoor, Theodor Blank, and Isak Abrahamsen. After him are Alexander Bek, Havergal Brian, Andrea Andreen, Jan Diddens, Jan Wils, and Rainer von Fieandt.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Saul Alinsky ranks 7,050 out of 20,380. Before him are Matt Reeves (1966), Marin Alsop (1956), Bruce Kirby (1925), Janice Dickinson (1955), Audrey Munson (1891), and Irwin Allen (1916). After him are Phil McGraw (1950), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), Matt Bloom (1972), Peter Greene (1965), Marta Kauffman (1956), and Mary Lou Williams (1910).

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Among writers born in United States, Saul Alinsky ranks 534. Before him are Maxwell Anderson (1888), Chris Morgan (1966), William Wharton (1925), Shel Silverstein (1930), Elbert Hubbard (1856), and Zane Grey (1872). After him are Marta Kauffman (1956), Robert Greene (1959), Aaron Sorkin (1961), Thomas Ligotti (1953), David Belasco (1853), and Charles Brockden Brown (1771).

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