The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
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...
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I am convinced that at least a third of the population is what Eric Hoffer calls true believers. They are joiners and followers . . . people who want to give away their power. They look for answers,...
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When I first read Hoffer's classic book, The True Believer, as a graduate student twenty years ago, I was shocked. I was astonished that a writer could openly suggest parallels among Christianity,...
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