The True Believer
Subtitle: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Published: Aug 06, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780062930866
Description: "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. Called a "brilliant and original inquiry" and "a genuine contribution to our social thought" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one."--Amazon.com.
Notes: Source title: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements