The Lean Berets

“If anybody asks me what I have accomplished,
I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.”
-Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Books:

• The True Believer (1951)
• The Passionate State of Mind (1955)
• The Ordeal of Change (1963)
• The Temper of Our Time (1967)
• Working and Thinking on the Waterfront (1969)
• First Things, Last Things (1971)
• Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
• In Our Time (1976)
• Before the Sabbath (1979)
• Between the Devil and the Dragon (1982)
• Truth Imagined (1983)

Website Archives:

• Wikipedia
• The Eric Hoffer Project
• Register of the Eric Hoffer Papers (Online Archive of California)
• Register of Eric Hoffer Papers-PDF (Online Archive of California)

Television Interviews:

• James Day 1963 KQED-TV Interviews: (American Archive of Public Broadcasting)
  • 1-The Ordeal of Change
  • 2-The Role of the Intellectual
  • 3-The Role of the Weak
  • 4-The Nature of Man
  • 5-Man’s Struggle for Uniqueness
  • 6-From the Cradle to Skid Row
  • 7-The Growth of a Train of Thought
  • 8-NA
  • 9-Automation
  • 10-The Mysterious Occident
  • 11-The New Age
  • 12-Reading and Writing
• Eric Sevareid “The Passionate State of Mind” 1964 CBS Interviews: (The Longshoreman YouTube Channel)
  • One
  • Two
  • Three
  • Four
  • Five
  • Tyranny of the Intellectuals (1967)

Papers & Articles:

• “Eric Hoffer: Implications for a Social Theory of Communication” by Jane Ann Fisher, University of South Dakota (1970 Masters Thesis)