Full name: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Author: Eric Hoffer Year: 1951 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, History Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780060505912 0060505915

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. Similar books: Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti Together by Richard Sennett The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer Propaganda by Jacques Ellul The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt The Madness of Crowds by Douglas Murray Fantasyland by Kurt Andersen Reflections on the Human Condition by Eric Hoffer The Empathic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin The Mass Psychology of Fascism by Wilhelm Reich The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip Slater The Temper of Our Time by Eric Hoffer Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman Propaganda and the Public Mind by Noam Chomsky The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Empire of Illusion by Chris Hedges Necessary Illusions by Noam Chomsky