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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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From time to time a book appears which analyzes a great historical movement or event with an insight so sure and comprehensive that it becomes a classic. A classic is, of course, among other things, a work which retains some of its initial freshness upon being reread and which continues to have an illuminating relevance to the themes it treats. Eric Hoffer's The True Believer is a classic study of a recurrent phenomenon in human history. Its impact and sense of contemporaneity have lost nothing with the passage of years. It is safe to predict that this book will be read by future generations in order that they may understand not only their past but their present.

Although it is a volume of modest size, it focuses the wisdom of a lifetime’s reading and reflection upon the fanaticism of mass movements in history. These are the movements which, at first gradually and then with increasing momentum, engulf in their dynamic surge the institutions of a society. They liquefy and remake the customs which have hardened into norms. They create the great crises, emergencies, as well as opportunities, that define every society's “time of troubles.”

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301.24

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New York : Time Incorporated., 1951

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Paperback, 220 hlm, 13x20.5 cm

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English

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301

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Social Sciences
Sociology

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