The Ordeal of Change Author:Eric Hoffer Harper & Row's paperback First Edition (1967) of the 1963 work. Essays first published 1952 through 1963 in various magazines. Hoffer's third work and the one he later described as his best. Sixteen articles on "The Awakening of Asia," "The Intellectual and the Masses," "Jehovah and the Machine Age," "Popular Upheavals in Communist Countries,... more »" and "The Role of Undesirables," as well as others. Even after fifty years, Hoffer continues to be one of the most readable and understandable voices of modern American thought.« less