Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher
by Tom Bethell
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Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."Tags
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Tom Bethell is a journalist in Washington, DC, where he is a senior editor of The American Spectator. For twenty-five years he has been a visiting media fellow at the Hoover Institution, where Eric Hoffer's papers are now housed.
Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher
- People/Characters
- Eric Hoffer
- Blurbers
- Bunzel, John; Gilder, George; Pipes, Richard
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 303.48 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social processes Social change Causes of change
- LCC
- HN65 .H54 .B47 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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