| Description |
1 online resource (304 pages :) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 616
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; 616.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The enigma of Eric Hoffer -- The migrant worker -- On the waterfront -- Intimate friendships -- The true believer -- Hoffer as a public figure -- The literary life -- America and the intellectuals -- God, Jehovah, and the Jews -- The longshoreman philosopher. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hoffer, Eric.
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Hoffer, Eric. |
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Hoffer, Eric. |
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
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Social reformers. |
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United States. |
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Philosophers -- United States -- Biography.
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Philosophers. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bethell, Tom. Eric Hoffer. Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2012 (DLC) 2011037057 |
| ISBN |
9780817914165 (electronic book) |
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0817914161 (electronic book) |
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0817914145 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780817914141 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780817914141 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780817914158 |
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