There Is Only the Fight
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An Analysis of the Alinsky Model
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts
degree under the Special Honors Program,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Hillary D. Rodham
Political Science
2 May, 1969
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So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.
T.S. Eliot, "East Coker"
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Acknowledgements....................................... i
Chapter
- I. SAUL DAVID ALINSKY: AN AMERICAL RADICAL . 1
- II. THE ALINSKY METHOD OF ORGANIZING: THREE
- CASE STUDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
- III. "A PRIZE PIECE OF POLTICALPORNOGRAPHY" . . 44
- IV. PERSPECTIVES ON ALINSKY AND HIS MODEL. . . 53
- V. REALIZING LIFE AFTER BIRTH . . . . . . . . 68
Appendices............................................. 76
Bibliography........................................... 84
[edit] Acknowledgements
Althought I have no "loving wife" to thank for keeping
the children away while I wrote, I do have many friend and
teachers who have contributed to the process of thesis-writing.
And I thank them for their tireless help and encouragement. In
regard to the paper itself, there are three people who deserve
special appreciation: Mr. Alinsky for providing a topic, sharing
his time and offering me a job; Miss Alona E. Evans for her
thoughtful questioning and careful editing that clarified fuzzy
thinking and tortured prose; and Jan Krigbaum for her spirited
intellectual companionship and typewriter rescue work.
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