The True Believer Author:Eric Hoffer Reporting on the true believer, Mr. Hoffer examines with Machiavellian detachment mass movements, from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprising of our own day. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic, the man whose personal failings lead him to join a cause, any... more » cause, even at peril to his life--or yours.« less