Shortly after Obama's election, after having read several references about Obama's predilection for employing Alinksy style tactics in combatting his enemies I called the reference desk of my local public library & asked for any available copy of Rules For Radicals. I'd read an account that the first edition of the book bore a dedication to Lucifer. It was indeed true. It reads: “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: From all our legends, mythology and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom-Lucifer."