Re: Another book request

["Justin Schwartz" <jkschw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The best book I know on the nitty gritty of organizing is Taylor Branch's
Parting the Waters, about King's early years. Thomas Powers has a pretty
good book on the Vietnam war movement, The War at Home. --jks


> From: Peter Dorman <dormanp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PEN-L:3346] Another book request
> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 13:39:12 -0700
>
> This time, what we're looking for is a book that provides a detailed
> analysis of a modern social movement, preferably one with at least some
> success.  The purpose is to incorporate it in a course on political
> economy, so that students have an opportunity to analyze the strategies
> available to activists and improve their own activism.  It would be nice
> if there were such a book on the movement in LA, for instance, so that
> class, racial, cultural, and environmental issues could be examined
> simultaneously -- but any multifaceted progressive movement might do.
>
> Just to be clear, I'm not interested in books that celebrate particular
> struggles, but ones that get into the nitty-gritty of movement
> organization and strategy.
>
> Peter

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