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Gamaliel Foundation
First Year Reading List
For New Organizers
6/17/2002 compilation
Gamaliel Organizers write weekly reports, part of that report includes a paragraph on what they are reading. One of the ways a candidate could confirm interest in a career in organizing to read a few of these books.
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Category* |
Author |
Title |
Comment |
From** |
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P/E/S |
Alinsky, Saul |
Rules for Radicals |
Principles of community organizing |
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P/E/S |
Alinsky, Saul |
Reveille for Radicals |
Principles of community organizing |
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P/T |
Brueggemann, Walter |
The Prophetic Imagination (1978) |
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Jacobsen |
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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 |
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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 |
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Bio |
Horwitt, Sanford D. |
Let Them Call Me Rebel (1989) |
Biography of Saul Alinsky |
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P/T |
Jacobsen, Dennis |
Doing Justice |
Gamaliel Foundation National Clergy Caucus Director’s work on the theology of community organizing |
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P/T |
May, Rollo |
Power and Innocence (1972) |
A psychotherapist’s interpretation of power, innocence, impotence and violence |
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P/E/S |
Orfield, Myron |
Metropolitics (1997) |
American metropolitan regions: analysis and solutions – a basic primer for metro organizing |
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P/E/S |
Pierce, Gregory |
Activism that Makes Sense (1984) |
Congregations and community organizing from a former organizer |
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P/E/S |
Rusk, David |
Inside Game, Outside Game |
In this book Rusk proclaims that playing the "inside game" (governmental antipoverty programs) is a loosing 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. |
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P/E/S |
West, Cornell |
Race Matters (1993) |
Moves the discussion about race beyond traditional liberal and conservative rhetoric. Written by one of the “stars” in Harvard’s (at least for now) African American think tank. |
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* CATEGORY KEY
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Bold print |
Titles in bold print are required reading for first year organizers in the Gamaliel Foundation |
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Bio |
Biography |
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His |
History |
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Lit |
Literature |
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OM |
Organizational Management |
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P/E/S |
Politics/Economics/Sociology |
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P/T |
Philosophy/Theology |