Reading List
Reading List for First-Year Organizers
Gamaliel Organizers write weekly reports that include a paragraph on what they are reading. Candidates may wish to confirm interest in a career in organizing by reading a few of these books.
| Category |
Author |
Title |
Comment |
| P/E/S |
Alinsky, Saul |
Rules for Radicals |
Principles of community organizing. |
| P/E/S |
Alinsky, Saul |
Reveille for Radicals |
Principles of community organizing. |
| P/T |
Brueggemann, Walter |
The Prophetic Imagination (1978) |
A powerful interpretation of the prophetic tradition as bearing witness to suffering and building a social community based on the freedom of God and the politics of justice and compassion. |
| OM |
Covey, Stephen |
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People |
Personal and professional development with a spiritual slant from a highly-sought consultant to Fortune 500 corporations. |
| OM |
Drucker, Peter F. |
The Effective Executive |
A seminal work on the role of an executive in an dynamic structure – recommended for pastors, leaders, organizers. |
| Bio |
Horwitt, Sanford D. |
Let Them Call Me Rebel (1989) |
Biography of Saul Alinsky. |
| P/T |
Jacobsen, Dennis |
Doing Justice |
Gamaliel Foundation National Clergy Caucus Director’s work on the theology of community organizing. |
| P/T |
May, Rollo |
Power and Innocence (1972) |
A psychotherapist's interpretation of power, innocence, impotence and violence. |
| P/E/S |
Orfield, Myron |
Metropolitics (1997) |
American metropolitan regions: analysis and solutions – a basic primer for metro organizing. |
| P/E/S |
Pierce, Gregory |
Activism that Makes Sense (1984) |
Congregations and community organizing from a former organizer. |
| P/E/S |
Rusk, David |
Inside Game, Outside Game |
Rusk proclaims that playing the "inside game" (governmental antipoverty programs) is a losing strategy. Real improvement will come only when the "inside game" is matched with the "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome urban sprawl and concentrated poverty. |
| P/E/S |
West, Cornell |
Race Matters (1993) |
Moves the discussion about race beyond traditional liberal and conservative rhetoric. |
| * CATEGORY KEY |
| Bio |
Biography |
| His |
History |
| Lit |
Literature |
| OM |
Organizational Management |
| P/E/S |
Politics/Economics/Sociology |
| P/T |
Philosophy/Theology |