Playbook for Progressives

An organizing manifesto for the twenty-first century, this comprehensive guide is a must-have for the activist's toolkit.

For decades, Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals has been acknowledged as the leading book in the field of organizing. But Playbook for Progressives proposes a more fundamental and long-term challenge, while articulating pragmatically what is required in the often mystifying and rarely explained on-the-ground practice of an organizer. Here, Eric Mann distills the lessons learned from his forty-five years as an organizer--from the Congress of Racial Equality and Students for a Democratic Society to the United Auto Workers and Los Angeles-based Labor/Community Strategy Center, where he's currently the director--as well as from other organizers within the civil rights, labor, LGBT, economic justice, and environmental movements.