When I took my first civic course in the fourth or fifth grade, and classmates were doing their first term paper on "Our Constitution" or "The Congress," I was writing on the communist theory of dialectical materialism, since I had read Karl Marx.
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My job as executive director was to help state College Republicans organizations and individual chapters expand the GOP's voting and volunteer base on campus.
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We dealt with rudimentary campaign strategy, messaging, planning, fundraising, scheduling fieldwork, and press work. Each of the participants received a massive notebook of "how-to" materials and the sacred texts of CR [Collge Republicans] organizers, such as Saul Alinsky's 'Rules for Radicals', Tony Schwartz's 'The Responsive Chord', David Oglivy's 'Confessions of an Advertising Man', and Sun Tzu's 'The Art of War'. These and other books contained nuggets about how to organize and win political campaigns.