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

Harper Perennial Modern Clas, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. "Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilli antly." --New Yorker The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of th e fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the le gendary San Francisco longshoreman. A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote phil osophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. T he True Believer--the first and most famous of his books--was made into a b estseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest tel evision 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.