The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements - Eric Hoffer, HarperCollins Publishers Inc

&quot,Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.&quot, --New Yorker The famous bestseller with &quot,concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement&quot, (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman. 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. Called a &quot,brilliant and original inquiry&quot, and &quot,a genuine contribution to our social thought&quot, 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.