The True Believer, Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, by Eric Hoffer

The brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic and those that follow. Hoffer was a native Longshoresman who became a well known philosopher.  His writing is concise and to the point — much more Hemingway than Faulkner.

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