Sanford D. Horwitt

In the course of his flamboyant career as an all-purpose activist, Saul Alinsky went from organising working-class ethnics in one of Chicago's most blighted neighbourhoods to mapping out strategies for the civil rights and antiwar movements of the 1960s. He enlisted allies—from Catholic clergymen to labour unionists and black activists—in battles waged against opponents from slumlords to the Eastman Kodak...