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The True Believer: Thoughts on
the Nature of Mass Movements
by Eric Hoffer
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The New Yorker
"Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and
brilliantly...."
Book Description
A highly provocative, bestselling analysis of the fanatic -- the individual
compelled to join a cause, any cause -- and a penetrating study of mass
movements from early Christianity to modern nationalism and Communism. Reporting
on the true believer, Air Hoffer examines with Machiavellian detachment mass
movements, from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of our own
day. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and
frightening study of the mind of the fanatic, the individual whose, personal
failings lead him to join a cause, any cause, even at peril to life -- or yours.
About the Author
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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