The thoughts on the nature of mass movements Hoffer, Eric creator text bibliography nyu New York Perennial Library 1966, c1951 1966 1951 1st Perennial library ed monographic eng

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160 p. ; 20 cm 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 Eric Hoffer Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-160) Social groups Social psychology Fanaticism Marianists Books and reading 301.15 H698T 0060800712 (pbk.) : 9780060800710 (pbk.) OCO 891201 20181128163935.0 20718570