02419cam a2200337 i 4500 224540 224540 20718570 OCoLC 20240605165533.0 891201t19661951nyu b 000 0 eng d 0060800712 (pbk.) 9780060800710 (pbk.) OCO eng rda OCO IXA YBM OCLCQ YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ CNUTO CNCMU CUT OCLCO OCLCQ Hoffer, Eric, author 14202 The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements / Eric Hoffer First Perennial Library edition New York : Perennial Library, Harper & Row Publishers, 1966 ©1951 160 pages ; 18 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Perennial Library ; P71 "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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-160) I: 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 Social groups 14203 Social psychology 6275 Fanaticism 14204 Psychology, Social (DNLM)D011593 19603 ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC NNCC NNCC 2024-06-05 NNCC NNCC 0 261.7 010209 2024-06-05 00:00:00 C-2 2024-06-05 BK