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Eric Hoffer. The true believer; thoughts on the nature of mass movements. Mentor Book No. 228. New York: New American Library, 1958. 160 pp. 50c (paperbound).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William J. MacKinnon
William J. MacKinnon*
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University of Arizona
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , October 1959 , pp. 376 - 378
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Copyright © 1959 by Philosophy of Science Association

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References

1 The productive interplay between armchair speculation based on loosely controlled observation of life and literature, and more rigorous theory-construction and investigation is suggested by the sequence leading from this book by Hoffer to a project it influenced. Cf. M. Rokeach, “Political and Religious Dogmatism: An Alternative to the Authoritarian Personality” (Psychological Monographs, 1956).

2 G. A. Almond: The Appeals of Communism (Princeton, 1954).