The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

A part of Harper Perennial€s special €œResistance Library€ highlighting classic works that illuminate the €œAge of Trump€: A boldly packaged reissue of the classic examination of dangerous nationalist political movements.

€œIts theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.€    €"New Yorker

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 €œbrilliant and original inquiry€ and €œa genuine contribution to our social thought€ 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.