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Title: The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer ISBN: 0-89966-748-1 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: 1976 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Controversy (from the beginning) and relevance
Comment: I read this book (and most of his others) when originally published. No question but THIS IS HIS GREAT WORK. As his work went on, his lack of understanding of institutions (public and private) began to show his failure to fully grasp the implications. When he left what he knew so well, the relations of the workers, he moved so far that his later writing suffers from asute commentary based on incorrect facts and understanding, which require careful reading. But THIS BOOK should be REQUIRED READING -- PERHAPS MOST FOR DUBYA AND HIS CREW, WHO TOTALLY LACK UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONCEPT.
Rating: 5
Summary: Down-to-earth philosophy and insight into change
Comment: Eric Hoffer is a remarkable individual, a self-educated philosopher and original thinker. He made an incredible impact years ago with his first book, The True Believer, which became a cult classic. A generation later, it has been (temporarily) forgotten, along with his second book, which never received the recognition it deserved. The Ordeal of Change relates how human beings deal with change in a series of essays that are both easy to relate to, meaningful to academics and lay people alike, and reflective of scholarship and common-sense. Why are we both attracted to and afraid of change? Hoffer's very readable book answers these questions in understandable and well-grounded terms. I have recommended this book to a dozen executives who have had to deal with resistance to change in their organizations, and somehow never came across this remarkable work by a San Francisco longshoreman who is a rival as a thinker to the best of more recognized intellectuals. Surprise someone whose mind you admire and wish to challenge with this as a gift, and do yourself a favor, proving that you can compete in the world of ideas. I didn't get my copy back from the last person I loaned it to, and can't remember who it was, so I have to buy a second copy of one of my all time favorites.
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Title: The True Believer : Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer ISBN: 0060505915 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 03 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Passionate State of Mind by Eric Hoffer ISBN: 1568490321 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Temper of Our Time by Eric Hoffer ISBN: 0899669093 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Before the Sabbath by Eric Hoffer ISBN: 0060119144 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: January, 1979 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles by Thomas Sowell ISBN: 0465081428 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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