Meet The Man Who Created The Playbook For Revolution

Gene Sharp, 83, is known for writing about nonviolence. Evan McGlinn for The New York Times

Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used In A Revolution -- New York Times

BOSTON — Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, he grows orchids, has yet to master the Internet and hardly seems like a dangerous man.

But for the world’s despots, his ideas can be fatal.

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My Comment: His book can be read here.