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jimlynchIf Carl Hiaasen set one of his novels on a residential stretch of boundary line between British Columbia and Washington, or if Richard Russo's characters had relatives in the Pacific Northwest, the result might be something like Jim Lynch's Border Songs. Continue »
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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

by Eric Hoffer

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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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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.
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OffTheCuff, April 18, 2009 (view all comments by OffTheCuff)
I first read this book as a doctoral student in the area of religious sectarianism--a field having any number of fanatics. No book I read then or since more briefly or exactly analyses what goes into the development of the kind of obsessive personality which places belief above reason and objectives above morality. Anyone wanting to understand the motivations, justifications, and rationales involved in present-day terrorism would do well to consider what Hoffer has to say.
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ISBN:
9780060505912
Subtitle:
Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
Author:
Hoffer, Eric
Author:
by Eric Hoffer
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Political
Subject:
Social Psychology
Subject:
Sociology - General
Subject:
Fanaticism
Subject:
Social groups
Subject:
Social participation
Edition Description:
Paperback
Series:
Perennial Classics
Series Volume:
150-101-686
Publication Date:
September 2002
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
8.00x5.30x.46 in. .36 lbs.
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