The True Believer SADB5740067705

Author: Eric Hoffer
Publisher: Mentor MD228
Year: 1958 Print: 1 Cover Price: $0.50
Condition: Good Plus. Wear. Solid
Genre: Counter Culture
Pages: 160
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Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.New Yorker

The famous bestseller with concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement (Wall Street Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman.

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 Believerthe first and most famous of his bookswas 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.