The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060505912 (0060505915)
Publish date: January 19th 2010
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Literature,
20th Century,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Psychology,
Political Science,
Social Science
It's rare that a book has the impact on me this one did, especially first read in mature adulthood; a book that often made me wish to underline paragraph after paragraph. It's a very short, simply written and accessible book--the main text is only 168 pages. The preface tells us it intends to examin...
Fascinating social psychological theory that helps us better-understand everything from Jonestown, to fraternity hazing.
An old book that will remain forever relevant, because human nature never changes.
13 years ago
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