TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hoffer, Eric
TI  - The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements 
SN  - 9780062930866 : PAP
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperCollins
KW  - Social psychology
KW  - Fanaticism
KW  - Social groups
KW  - Social participation
N1  - Harper Perennial resistance library; Harper Perennial modern thought; "Nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness" -- cover; Originally published by Harper & Row, Publishers, in 1951 -- Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; Preface -- The appeal of mass movements: The desire for change - The desire for substitutes - The interchangeability of mass movements -- The potential converts: The role of the undesirables in human affairs - The poor: The new poor ; The abjectly poor ; The free poor ; The creative poor ; The unified poor - Misfits - The inordinately selfish - The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities - Minorities - The bored - The sinners -- United action and self-sacrifice: Preface - Factors promoting self-sacrifice: Identification with a collective whole ; Make-beliefve ; Depreciation of the present ; "Things which are not" ; Doctrine ; Fanaticism ; Mass movements and armies - Unifying agents: Hatred ; Imitation ; Persuasion and coercion ; Leadership ; Action ; Suspicion ; The effects of unification -- Beginning and end: Men of words - The fanatics - The practical men of action - Good and bad mass movements: The unattractiveness and sterility of the active phase ; Some factors which determine the length of the active phase ; Useful mass movements -- Notes
N2  - "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 "brilliant and original inquiry" and "a 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."--Amazon.com
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