The Temper of Our Time

Eric Hoffer is a rare man. A longshoreman who acquired some serious insights into the condition of working class America in the 1960's. If you wish to deal with most North Americans Hoffer's works are the starting place. His book here is a set of essays about the concerns of Americans down to the present day (April of 2019). Studs Terkel is a light weight compared to Hoffer, and if they did not come to blows, or even if they did, the two men were the faces of the real America, and Canada. Deeply missed, Eric. And, everyone should read this book.

6 essays written during the 1960s

Hoffer was a San Francisco longshoreman who scribbled and read, devouring books at a dozen libraries and checking what he foundagainst his firshand knowledge of men and mass mouvement. This book enlights the human resistance to change, the revolutionary character of adolescent culture, and the defaming of America by frustrated European intellectuals .