The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
(2002, original release: 1951)
By:
Hoffer, Eric
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
303.484/HOFFER,E
1 Hold on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002
EDITION
First Perennial Modern Classics edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 177 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0060505915, 9780060505912, 9780060505912, 0060505915 :
LANGUAGE
English
SERIES
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1951
The desire for change -- The desire for substitutes -- The interchangeability of mass movements -- The role of the undesirables in human affairs -- The poor -- Misfits -- The inordinately selfish -- The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities -- Minorities -- The bored -- The sinners -- Preface -- Factors promoting self-sacrifice -- Unifying agents -- Men of words -- The fanatics -- The practical men of action -- Good and bad mass movements