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

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.

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• The Ordeal of Change
• Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
• The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
• The Massacre at El Mozote
• Under Western Eyes (Penguin Classics)
• Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
• Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego (Norton Library)
• Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
• Escape from Freedom