The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic
Print Book, English, 2002
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, New York, 2002