The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
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New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, [2002].
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First Perennial Modern Classics edition.
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xiii, 177 pages ; 20 cm.
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Published
New York : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, [2002].
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Book
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First Perennial Modern Classics edition.
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English

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Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, 1951.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177).
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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

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Hoffer, E. (2002). The true believer: thoughts on the nature of mass movements (First Perennial Modern Classics edition.). Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

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Hoffer, Eric. 2002. The True Believer: Thoughts On the Nature of Mass Movements. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.

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Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts On the Nature of Mass Movements Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002.

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Hoffer, Eric. The True Believer: Thoughts On the Nature of Mass Movements First Perennial Modern Classics edition., Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2002.

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