Alana Goodman of the Washington Free Beacon writes today about newly discovered letters exchanged between Hillary Rodham and Saul Alinsky in the late sixties and beyond.  The letters show that Hillary remained an acolyte of Alinsky’s at least into the mid-seventies, which calls into question the account in her autobiography (Living History) in which she says that she and Alinsky parted ways in 1969 when she turned down a job offer from him in favor of attending Yale Law School.

An interesting excerpt:

A 23-year-old Hillary Clinton was living in Berkeley, California, in the summer of 1971.  She was interning at the left-wing law firm Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, known for its radical politics and a client roster that included Black Panthers and other militants.

On July 8, 1971, Clinton reached out to Alinsky, then 62, in a letter sent via airmail, paid for with stamps featuring Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and marked “Personal.”

“Dear Saul,” she began.  “When is that new book [Rules for Radicals] coming out—or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation?”

“I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people,” she added, a reference to Alinsky’s 1946 book on his theories of community organizing.

The full Washington Free Beacon article, including copies of some of the letters between the two, is HERE.

And to supplement Goodman’s reportage, I recommend for further reading THIS article by Stanley Kurtz at the online National Review, in which he explains why this new information is vital in understanding how Hillary Clinton would govern if she were to become President.