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    The True Believer English Paperback Hoffer Eric

    9780060505912

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    The True Believer English Paperback Hoffer Eric

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    9780060505912

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    • Language: English
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
    • Genre: Self-Help
    • ISBN: 9780060505912, 0060505915
    • Pages: 192

    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. Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

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    • HarperCollins
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    • Eric Hoffer (1902 -- 1983) was self-educated. He worked in restaurants, as a migrant fieldworker, and as a gold prospector. After Pearl Harbor, he worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco for twenty-five years. The author of more than ten books, including The Passionate State of Mind, The Ordeal of Change, and The Temper of Our Time, Eric Hoffer was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.
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    • 12 mm
    Height
    • 203 mm
    Length
    • 143 mm
    Weight
    • 148 gr