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The Temper of Our Time Paperback – January 22, 2008

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Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Temper of Our Time examines the influence of the juvenile mentality, the rise of automation, the black revolution, the regression of the back-to-nature movement, the intellectual vs. learning, and other relevent issues. (Restored to print by noted author Christopher Klim.)

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108 pages
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English
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Hopewell Publications
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January 22, 2008
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6 x 0.26 x 9 inches
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1933435224
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978-1933435220
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hopewell Publications (January 22, 2008)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933435224
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933435220
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.26 x 9 inches

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Eric Hoffer Biography

Former migratory worker and longshoreman, Eric Hoffer burst on the scene in 1951 with his irreplaceable tome, The True Believer, and assured his place among the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. Nine books later, Hoffer remains a vital figure with his cogent insights to the nature of mass movements and the essence of humankind.

Of his early life, Hoffer has written: “I had no schooling. I was practically blind up to the age of fifteen. When my eyesight came back, I was seized with an enormous hunger for the printed word. I read indiscriminately everything within reach—English and German.

“When my father (a cabinetmaker) died, I realized that I would have to fend for myself. I knew several things: One, that I didn’t want to work in a factory; two, that I couldn’t stand being dependent on the good graces of a boss; three, that I was going to stay poor; four, that I had to get out of New York. Logic told me that California was the poor man’s country.”

Through ten years as a migratory worker and as a gold-miner around Nevada City, Hoffer labored hard but continued to read and write during the years of the Great Depression. The Okies and the Arkies were the “new pioneers,” and Hoffer was one of them. He had library cards in a dozen towns along the railroad, and when he could afford it, he took a room near a library for concentrated thinking and writing.

In 1943, Hoffer chose the longshoreman’s life and settled in California. Eventually, he worked three days each week and spent one day as “research professor” at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1964, he was the subject of twelve half-hour programs on national television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1983.

"America meant freedom and what is freedom? To Hoffer it is the capacity to feel like oneself. He felt like Eric Hoffer; sometimes like Eric Hoffer, working man. It could be said, I believe, that he as the first important American writer, working class born, who remained working class-in his habits, associations, environment. I cannot think of another. Therefore, he was a national resource. The only one of its kind in the nation’s possession.” - Eric Sevareid, from his dedication speech to Eric Hoffer, San Francisco, CA, September 17, 1985

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the origin of the radical right

Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022

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This book really set me back on my heels! What Hoffer called out in 1966 is what we are now looking with! This book details how the right wing came into being and continues to run amuck. I am so glad to see Hoffers works being revived as it is so revealing of the under belly of the American consciousness. It i apparent that the this type of thinking is prevalent through the American experiment.

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Nelson J. Garcia

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2011

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I was introduced to Eric Hoffer while attending The Special Forces Officers Course in 1965. His "The True Believer" was mandatory reading for all students. He was a master at breaking down the facets of the human psyche to help us understand the human need for a cause, a vision, a personality - devine or secular - in which they can transfer (and shed) the inperfect self. This book is a follow-up to his other works of that genre. I still have them and read and reread them when I've needed to refresh my own perspective of the "Mass movement" and their fanatical followers. Here was a longshoreman who was invited to the White House by President Johnson to chat with him about his world views. I believe this book is sort of a "Memorandom For The Record" of that experience.

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this is a wonderful short book that gives us pause for thought

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2014

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Dear friends,
this is a wonderful short book that gives us pause for thought. So much has changed since Eric Hoffer wrote this book and yest so much remains to be done to improve the human condition and the environment.

The simple yet eloquent style of writing and the down to earth thinking makes for refreshing reading.

This was the second title which I recently purchased and enjoyed reading so I plan to read all of his books over the coming months to better understand his view of the world and its people.

John Barnes
Bangkok Thailand.

6 people found this helpful

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2008

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This excellent book among others by Eric Hoffer are timeless. I purchased these as replacements for ones I have read and reread over the last 30 years. I find that in today's 21st century world that Hoffer's insights remain as vibrant as they were during the period of the sixtys and beyond. Short read, excellent command of english, and as concrete a treatment of a difficult subject as can be found anywhere. The fact that this among others was written by a longshoreman makes it the more astounding and the grasp of concretes awesome.

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Philosopher of our time

Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2021

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Great insights from an amazing mind.

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The Finest Philosopher Of Our Times

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2017

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Thoughts of one of the best philosophers of modern times. Clear and still relevant today. Everyone should read all of his books.

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A must read!----All of his books!

Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2013

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Eric Hoffer is every mans phillospher.Commen sense thinking to whats wrong with the world and how to see through todays left wing crap and political correctness!

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I have no clue how this is so highly rated

Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2021

If you like American Exceptionalism, Racism and Zionism mixed in with a complete absence of the political-economic realities of the US (and the actual reality of the creation of the Israeli state) and spiced with a bit of anti-intellectualism then this is the book for you. Perfectly reflects the dominant US ethos at the time it was written, and of course loved by the neo-liberals.

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