“THERE IS ONLY THE FIGHT..." An Analyse of tho Alinsky Medel. - ~- ‘A thesio oubaltted 4n partial fuls%1imont cf tho requirements for the Bacholor of Arta: dogreo undor the Special Honors Program, © = \ollesloy College, Nellosloy, fassachusotts. Hillary D, Rodham PoBitical Science 2May, 1969 [© 1969" Hillary D. Rodham)7 Se hore I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—— Twenty yoars largely wasted, tho years ef ltentro deux querres Trying to learn te.use werds, and overy attompt . Is a wholly new start, ami a different kind ef failuro ‘ Bocauso ono has only learnt te get the bettor of werds . Fer tho thing ono no Jengor has te say, er tho Way in which One 4s no longer disrased to say At. And ge.oach venture Is a now boginiin raid on tho dnarticulate With shabby equipment always doteriorating In the general ress of imprecision of feeling, : Undiseiplined cquads ef exotien. And what thoro is te conquer By strength and subnission, has alreasy beon discevercd Once or twice, or sereral tines, by ron when, one cannot hepe, To emlate—tut there is ne conpetition-— There is only the fight to recever what has beon lest And feurd_ani lest again and acain: and now, undor conditiens That seem unpropitious. Dut porhaps noither gain nor loss For us, there 4s only the trying. The rest 4s net our business, “ $.Ss Eliot, "East Cokor” .oa . TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledconentserees .Chaptor * L. SAULODAVID ALINSKY: AY AMEXICAN RADICAL =, II. THE ALINSKY METHOD OF ORGANIZING: THREE ea we -CASE-STUDIESs ope ee ee ee ewe Ab IIL. "A‘PRIZE PIECE OF POLTICALPORIOGRAPHY" oe lh ' STOCTIVES ON ALINSKY AND MTS LODIe ee 53 ? BIRTH se ee eee 68 = 76 _ REALIZING LIFE AF”