Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky, Nicholas von Hoffman, Nation Books, 256 pages. By Jesse Walker Back of the Yards is a district just south and west of the old Union Stock Yard in Chicago. A century ago, it was best known as the crowded, poverty-stricken setting of Upton Sinclair’s muckraking meatpacking novel The Jungle. … Continue reading Tools for Radicals