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037			_bHarpercollins, 53 Glenmaura National Blvd Ste 300, Moosaic, PA, USA, 18507-2132 _nSAN 200-2086
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100			_aHoffer, Eric _eAuthor _0(DLC)n 50031284.
245	0	4	_aThe True Believer : _bThoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements / _cEric Hoffer.
246	3		_aThoughts on the nature of mass movements.
264		1	_aNew York _bHarperCollins, _c2019.
264		4	_c©1951.
300			_axviii, 220 pages _c19 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
380			_aBook _2tlcgt.
385			_aGeneral _2tlctarget.
385			_aAny audience _2marctarget.
500			_aHarper Perennial resistance library.
500			_aHarper Perennial modern thought.
500			_a"Nationalist movements revive or invent memories of past greatness" -- cover.
500			_aOriginally published by Harper & Row, Publishers, in 1951 -- Title page verso.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505	0		_aPreface -- 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.
520			_a"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.
650		0	_aSocial psychology _0(DLC)sh 85123994.
650		0	_aFanaticism _0(DLC)sh 85047091.
650		0	_aSocial groups _0(DLC)sh 85123946.
650		0	_aSocial participation _0(DLC)sh 85123981.
830		0	_aHarper Perennial modern thought _0(local)tlcaut650080248333200.
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