Download or read book Eric Hoffer written by Tom Bethell and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."