Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher

Tom Bethell

$29.95

Publication Date: March 1st, 2012

Publisher:

Hoover Institution Press

ISBN:

9780817914141

Pages:

328

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Description

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."

About the Author

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 preserved.