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First Things, Last Things
by
Eric Hoffer
Eric Hoffer one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer begins with a macro view on the progress of civilization, ending with his crucible vision on the unique and transformative aspects of mankind.
Paperback, 92 pages
Published
October 28th 2008
by Hopewell Publications
(first published 1971)
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I tend to buy Hoffer's arguments immediately upon reading them, but maybe that's just the universal evolutionary fact of the human brain that we believe everything we read at first. Also, since I'm in constant fear of being elitist, anything that strikes a blow at the hubris of the intellectual wins favor with me, due to my complicated self-hating and -aggrandizing psychological underpinnings. In the end, though, I think I managed to maintain my elitist beliefs, albeit tempered, once again, by...more
Hoffer is a major figure in the counterrevolution against the 60s -- Presidential Medal of Freedom from Reagan. Intellectuals hate America; liberals are really elitists -- they're still saying the same b.s. 40 years later.
Steve
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Eric Hoffer was an American social writer and philosopher. He produced ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983 by President of the United States Ronald Reagan. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, was widely recognized as a classic, receiving critical acclaim from both scholars and laymen, although Hoffer believed that his book The Ordeal of Ch...more
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