Playboy Interview: Saul Alinsky
March, 1972
For the past 35 years, the American establishment has come under relentless attack from a bespectacled, conservatively dressed community organizer who looks like an accountant and talks like a stevedore. According to The New York Times, Saul Alinsky "is hated and feared in high places from coast to coast" for being "a major force in the revolution of powerless people--indeed, he is emerging as a movement unto himself." And a Time magazine essay concluded that "it is not...
