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The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

Eric Hoffer

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1. You Can't Win by Jack Black - autobiography of a late 19th century safecracker and general criminal - long enough ago for everything to be different, but the differences are still recognizable 2. Stalin - the Kremlin Mountaineer - a great, and short biography of Joseph Stalin - one of the rare books that could have been longer 3. Stars Beneath Us: Finding God in the Evolving Cosmos by Paul Wallace - an astrophysicist looks at the book of Job and reveals it as the big picture view. 4. The True Believer by Eric Hoffer - the all time classic of the study of mass movements. Full of aphorisms too.