The True Believer

Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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Eric Hoffer

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Eric Hoffer was a stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s who wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer was the first and most famous of his books, made into a bestseller when then President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences. Hoffer appeared on public television in 1964 and then in two one-hour conversations on CBS with Eric Severeid, which propelled him into the role of public philosopher in the mode of Joseph Campbell. Hoffer had no formal education; he chose the life of the manual laborer. This small manual on the nature of fanaticism was seen as a parallel to Machiavelli’s The Prince.

Author Biography:

Eric Hoffer (1902 -- 1983) was self-educated. He worked in restaurants, as a migrant fieldworker, and as a gold prospector. After Pearl Harbor, he worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco for twenty-five years. The author of more than ten books, including The Passionate State of Mind, The Ordeal of Change, and The Temper of Our Time, Eric Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

Release date NZ

January 19th, 2010

Author

Eric Hoffer

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

2nd edition

Pages

192

Dimensions

143x203x12

ISBN-13

9780060505912

Product ID

1717673

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