02330cam a2200313 i 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003202000230007302000260009604001150012210000260023724500810026325000360034426400660038026400110044630000230045733600260048033700280050633800270053449000290056150001760059050400560076650511010082265000180192365000220194165000150196365000380197820718570OCoLC20240605165533.0891201t19661951nyu      b    000 0 eng d  a0060800712q(pbk.)  a9780060800710q(pbk.)  aOCObengerdacOCOdIXAdYBMdOCLCQdYDXCPdOCLCQdOCLCFdOCLCQdOCLCOdOCLCQdCNUTOdCNCMUdCUTdOCLCOdOCLCQ1 aHoffer, Eric,eauthor14aThe true believer :bthoughts on the nature of mass movements /cEric Hoffer  aFirst Perennial Library edition 1aNew York :bPerennial Library, Harper & Row Publishers,c1966 4c©1951  a160 pages ;c18 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier0 aPerennial Library ;vP71  a"The True Believer was originally published by Harper & Brothers in 1951. First Perennial Library edition published in 1966 by Harper & Row, Publishers."--Title page verso  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 152-160)0 aI: The appeal of mass movements -- The desire for change -- The desire for substitutes -- The interchangeability of mass movements -- II: The potential converts -- The role of the undesirables in human affairs -- The poor -- The new poor -- The abjectly poor -- The free poor -- The creative poor -- The unified poor -- Misfits -- The inordinately selfish -- The ambitious facing unlimited opportunities -- Minorities -- The bored -- The sinners -- III: United action and self-sacrifice -- Preface -- Factors promoting self-sacrifice -- Identification with a collective whole make-believe -- Deprecation of the present -- "Things which are not"Doctrine -- Fanaticism -- Mass movements and armies -- Unifying agents -- Hatred -- Imitation -- Persuasion and coercion -- Leadership -- Action -- Suspicion -- The effects of unification -- IV: Beginning and end -- Men or words -- The fanatics -- The practical men of action -- Good and bad mass movements -- The unattractiveness and sterility of the active phase -- Some factors which determine the length of the active phase -- Useful mass movements 0aSocial groups 0aSocial psychology 0aFanaticism 2aPsychology, Social0(DNLM)D011593