The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

Hoffer, Eric

ISBN 10: 0060505915 / ISBN 13: 9780060505912

Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000050189

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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 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Born in New York City, Eric Hoffer (1902–1983) was self-educated. He worked in restaurants, as a migrant fieldworker, and as a gold prospector. After the attack on 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, Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

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Titel: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of...
Verlag: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: paperback
Zustand: Good