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.

Product Description: Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—begins with a macro view on the progress of civilization, ending with his crucible vision on the unique and transformative aspects of mankind.

Product Description: Eric Hoffer—one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer—approaches the critical problems of our time with the common sense that leads to startling conclusions and recommendations for an optimistic future.

Product Description: Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature...read more

Product Description: Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature...read more

Product Description: Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature...read more

Product Description: Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature...read more

Product Description: Blind as a child, Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers--regained his sight at the age of fifteen and became a voracious reader. At eighteen, fate would take his remaining family, sending him on the road with three hundred dollars and into the life of a Depression Era migrant worker, but his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--remained and became the basis for his insights on human nature...read more

This collection of the major writings of American longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer includes the complete text of 'The True Believer' and important essays and aphorisms from all of his works

A collection of thoughts inspired by daily events, this six-month diary, begun in November 1974, contains Hoffer's reflections on history, current affairs, world conflicts, inflation, democracy, working, retirement, and growing old