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Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951): A Discussion with Jay Garfinkel

New Books in Sociology by New Books Network

Aug 14, 202632:13Science & Medicine

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eventually taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The...

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Eric Hoffer's "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" (1951): A Discussion with Jay Garfinkel is an episode from New Books in Sociology by New Books Network. A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, who eve...

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Published Aug 14, 2026, 32:13 long, audio available.