| The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements Contributor(s): Hoffer, Eric (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060505915 ISBN-13: 9780060505912 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2010 Annotation: A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Political - Philosophy | Social - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 2002072255 |
| Series: Perennial Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hoffer, Eric: - 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. |