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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

By Eric Hoffer

Book information

Publisher
Harper & brothers
Year
1951
ISBN
0060119209, 9780060119201
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
339 kB (346776 bytes)
Edition
First Edition/Later Printing
Pages
176\0
Time added
2016-07-17 12:19:28
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Description

Who is the True Believer? According to Hoffer, he's a guilty hitchhiker who thumbs a ride on every cause from Christianity to communism. He's a fanatic, needing a Stalin (or a Christ--or [fill in the blank here] to worship and die for. He's the mortal enemy of things-as-they-are, and he insists on sacrificing himself for a dream impossible to obtain. He is today everywhere on the march. This book was required reading in freshman college courses in the 50's, and although not as well known now, it is truly a book for our times.

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