| | [[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.]] | | [[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.]] |
| − | By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June, 1969, she appeared in ''Life'' Magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014). [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>. She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946). [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).</ref>, a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him. | + | By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June 1969, she appeared in ''Life'' magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014). [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>. She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946). [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).</ref>, a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him. |
| | In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, ''Rules For Radicals'' was going to be published: | | In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, ''Rules For Radicals'' was going to be published: |