The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

ISBN-13:	9780062930866
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/06/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	127,520
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)

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.