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While Parliament fought the king, tinkers and soldiers were arguing for common land, free love, and no clergy. Hill recovers the Diggers, Levellers and Ranters, and the revolution that never came off.
Alinsky wrote the manual for taking power when you have none: pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, polarize it. Decades later Tea Party trainers were handing it to conservative organizers.
Hunger runs through Wright's Southern boyhood: for food, for books, which he gets by forging notes on a white man's library card. He sets down Jim Crow's cruelty without a word of self-pity.