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001			20718570
003			OCoLC
005			20181128163935.0
008			891201t19661951nyu b 000 0 eng d
020			_a0060800712 (pbk.) : _c$4.95
020			_a9780060800710 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)20718570
040			_aOCO _cOCO _dIXA _dYBM _dOCLCQ _dDAY
082			_a301.15 _bH698T
090			_aHM281 _b.H6 1966
092	0		_a303.484 _bH698t _220
100	1		_aHoffer, Eric
245	1	4	_aThe true believer : _bthoughts on the nature of mass movements / _cEric Hoffer
250			_a1st Perennial library ed
260			_aNew York : _bPerennial Library, _c1966, c1951
300			_a160 p. ; _c20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 152-160)
505	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
650		0	_aSocial groups
650		0	_aSocial psychology
650		0	_aFanaticism
650		4	_aMarianists _xBooks and reading
942			_2ddc _cBK