Students of Alinsky
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Many important community and labor organizers came
from the "
Alinsky was the subject
of Hillary
Rodham's senior honors thesis at Wellesley
College, "There
Is Only The Fight...": An Analysis of the Alinsky
Model.[8]
Rodham commented on Alinsky's "charm," but
rejected grassroots community organizing as outdated. Once Hillary Rodham
Clinton became First Lady of the United States,
the thesis was suppressed by the White House
for fear of being associated too closely with Alinsky's
ideas.[9]
Alinsky also had a
significant influence on Barack Obama, who is a United States Senator and
candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.[8]
Obama particularly used Alinsky's techniques while
participating in
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