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  • Old and disproven assertions

  • This book is a lovely proof that writing a bunch of self-important crap about human nature can make you popular but it doesn't make you right. Anyone who's been keeping up with the news these days can point out its obvious flaws.

    

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  • I read this because I thought the conservative columnist Thomas Sowell was smart and he recommended it. (I was in high school; I know better now.)

    

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A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

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