The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
, by Hoffer, EricNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780060505912 | 0060505915
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/21/2009
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.