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Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher | Tom Bethell
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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."
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Eric Hoffer, the favorite author of President Eisenhower, the longshoremen philosopher, was an enigma. He was an undocumented immigrant into this country with a mysterious past. He was a preeminent thinker of the twentieth century. Thoughtful and intelligent!

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