Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Eric Hoffer
    -ESSAY: Eric Hoffer, Genius—And Enigma: His early years remain obscure, but the postwar writings and influence of the Longshoreman Philosopher proved incandescent. (Tom Bethell, 4/06/12, Hoover Digest)
    -ESSAY: The Prophets: Eric Hoffer: In 1951, a book by an unschooled dockworker predicted the forces that would give rise to radical politics on the left, populism on the right—and a president like Donald Trump. (Rob Henderson, April 13, 2024, The Free Press)
    ESSAY: The Longshoreman Philosopher: Combining the life of a working man with a life of reading and writing, the San Francisco longshoreman Eric Hoffer became a noted philosopher, a best-selling author, and an acute observer of American life. His papers in the Hoover Archives run to many thousands of pages and include journals that have never been published. Tom Bethell examines the Hoffer trove (Tom Bethell, Winter 2003, Hoover Digest)
    -ESSAY: Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher’s Thought & Work (Pedro Gonzalez, January 27th, 2021, Imaginative Conservative)
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    -ESSAY: God Bless the Misfits: Eric Hoffer’s writings can help us understand the global appeal of populism. (Alberto Mingardi, 10/08/24, Law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: The Totalitarian Artist: Politics vs Beauty: After Duchamp, the art world came to view the pursuit of beauty as naïve and gravitated toward political art in their search for meaning. But this is a Faustian bargain: you can have meaning, but you do not get to make it for yourself. (Megan Gafford, 20 Sep 2024, Quillette)
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    -REVIEW: of Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher by Tom Bethell (Daniel J. Flynn, University Bookman)