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The True Believer Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classic.) HARDCOVER

Eric Hoffer

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classic.) 2002. Hardcover with dustjacket. 177 pages. 9 pages of author's "Notes".

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This book, written by a longshoreman who taught himself how to think, analyzed the commonalities in revolutionary movements like Hitler's, Christianity, communism, and the French Revolution, focusing on the people on the ground.

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He wrote a book called A True Believer. And it's about how revolutionary movements, including, you know, Hitler, Christianity, communism, French Revolution, what they all have in common. And he looks...

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This book, written by a longshoreman who taught himself how to think, analyzed the commonalities in revolutionary movements like Hitler's, Christianity, communism, and the French Revolution, focusing on the people on the ground.

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He wrote a book called A True Believer. And it's about how revolutionary movements, including, you know, Hitler, Christianity, communism, French Revolution, what they all have in common. And he looks at it from the point of view of the people on the ground.

It's stuff like revolution will not come from poor people because poor people are trying to get dinner together. You know, it comes usually from the middle classes, from the slightly better off. Bourgeois. Yeah. I'm sorry. Yeah. It's people who are bored. It's people who are well off.

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