The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Paperback

by Eric Hoffer (Author)The famous bestseller with "concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement" (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman “If you want concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement at their most primal level, may I suggest an evening with Eric Hoffer.” - John McDonough, Wall St. Journal “Hoffer has outlined a remarkably clear and suggestive theory about the kind of social change he sums up as ‘mass movements,’ supplied concrete illustrative materials drawn from a wide historical range, and put them together in a brief, readable, and provocative book.” - New York Herald Tribune “This brilliant and original inquiry into the nature of mass movements is a genuine contribution to our social thought.” - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while livin