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.
Eric Hoffer Books
25 luglio 1898 – 21 maggio 1983
Eric Hoffer was an American social writer and philosopher whose work delves into the nature of mass movements and fanaticism. His writing is profoundly shaped by his own life experiences, including periods of blindness, migration, and labor as a longshoreman. Hoffer's philosophy emphasizes the importance of individual thought and skepticism towards collective beliefs. He possessed an uncompromising perspective on human nature and societal phenomena, making him a distinctive figure in American intellectual discourse.
The Ordeal of Change
- 136 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Nowhere is this more evident than in Hoffer's seminal work, The Ordeal of Change, essays on the duality and essentiality of change in man throughout history. (Restored to print by noted author Christopher Klim.)
This book was originally published by Harper & Row, Publishers, in 1951.-- Title page verso.