The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951.
First edition. xiii, [i], 176 pp. Bound in original cloth lettered in blue. Fine in Very Good dust jacket with a few small chips at edges, a few short closed tears, rubbing, a few pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, price intact ($2.50). Uncommon.
A perennially popular work of social psychology that, in the past few years, has reputedly described the Occupy movement, the Tea Party, Trump's popular base (by Hillary Clinton), the 9/11 terrorists, and all sorts of other groups across the political spectrum. It remains in print. That it was written by a San Francisco longshoreman with no higher education is remarkable.
Price: $700.00