The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Softcover

Hoffer, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062930869 ISBN 13: 9780062930866

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2019

Synopsis

A part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate the "Age of Trump" A boldly packaged reissue of the classic examination of dangerous nationalist political movements.

"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly." --New Yorker

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0062930869
• ISBN 13: 9780062930866
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240