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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Truth Imagined

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The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

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From Wikipedia
Eric Hoffer (July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983) was an American social writer. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen. This book, which he considered his best, established his reputation. He remained a successful writer for most of his remaining years. Hoffer was born in New York City, the son of German immigrants. By the age of five, he could read in both German and English. At age seven, following an accident, Hoffer went blind for unknown medical reasons. His eyesight inexplicably returned when he was fifteen. Fearing he would again go blind, he seized upon the opportunity to read as much as he could for as long as he could. His eyesight remained, but Hoffer never abandoned his habit of voracious reading. (more)

From ForCarl
Eric Hoffer (1902-1986) was born in Brooklyn to German parents, his mother died when he was young, he was raised in poverty, he went blind from age eight to fifteen, he never spent a day in school, became a hobo, and eventually washed up in San Francisco, where he worked as a longshoreman for twenty-five years. Eric Hoffer was a self-educated--self-taught--philosopher who was virtually without formal education. He was often called the working man’s philosopher. He worked on the piers by day, at night he wrote the greatest of 20th Century American philosophy. He developed an uncanny sense of the human condition in his understanding of the nature of beliefs. In 1951 he published The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, which is today considered a classic in that genre. Eric Hoffer was greatly influenced by french philosopher/writer Michel De Montaigue. Eric Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

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