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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hoffer, Eric. True believer. New York, Harper and Row [1951] (OCoLC)570359196 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric Hoffer |
| OCLC Number: | 2636401 |
| Description: | 160 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Pt. 1: The appeal of mass movements. The desire for change ; The desire for substitutes ; The interchangeability of mass movements -- Pt. 2: The potential converts. The role of the undesirables in human affairs ; The poor ; Misfits ; The inordinately selfish ; The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities ; Minorities ; The bored ; The sinners -- Pt. 3: United action and self-sacrifice. Factors promoting self-sacrifice ; Unifying agents -- Pt. 4: Beginning and end. Men of words ; The fanatics ; The practical men of action ; Good and bad mass movements. |
| Responsibility: | Eric Hoffer. |
Abstract:
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences. Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.--From publisher description.
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