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

Hoffer, Eric

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0060505915 ISBN 13: 9780060505912

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010

Riassunto

Discusses the appeal of mass movements, types of potential converts, factors promoting self-sacrifice, and good and bad mass movements. Reissue.

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L'autore:

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.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

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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• Editore: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0060505915
• ISBN 13: 9780060505912
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 192