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01986aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 D1CBB8584FEC11EB82B7CC4B28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210106010010 008 181212t20191951nyu b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0062930869 020 $a 9780062930866 035 $a (OCoLC)1078760728 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BYV $d UOK $d JNE $d OCLCF $d YDXIT $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a HM881 $b .H64 2019 082 04 $a 303.484 $2 23 100 1 $a Hoffer, Eric, $e author. 245 14 $a The true believer : $b thoughts on the nature of mass movements / $c Eric Hoffer. 246 30 $a Thoughts on the nature of mass movements 264 1 $a New York : $b HarperPerennial, $c [2019] 300 $a xviii, 220 pages ; $c 19 cm 490 1 $a Harper Perennial modern thought 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 500 $a Originally published by Harper & Row, Publishers, in 1951 -- Title page verso. 520 $a "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. Called a "brilliant and original inquiry" and "a genuine contribution to our social thought" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one."--Amazon.com. 650 0 $a Social groups. 650 0 $a Social psychology. 650 0 $a Fanaticism. 650 0 $a Social participation. 830 0 $a Harper Perennial modern thought. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210106010103.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D1CBB8584FEC11EB82B7CC4B28ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search