Hoffer, Eric

Biographical Note

1898 Born, New York (?) 1920s 1930s Works as migrant farm laborer and gold miner in California, Oregon, and Washington 1942 Begins work as a longshoreman in San Francisco, California 1951 Author, The True Believer 1955 Author, The Passionate State of Mind 1963 Author, The Ordeal of Change 1967 Author, The Temper of Our TimeInvited to the White House by President Lyndon B. Johnson 1967 1969 Writes nationally syndicated newspaper column, “Reflections” 1968 1969 Member, National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence 1969 Author, Working and Thinking on the Waterfront 1973 Author, Reflections on the Human Condition, 1973 1979 Author, Before the Sabbath 1983 Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald ReaganDied, San Francisco, CaliforniaAutobiography, Truth Imagined, published posthumously

From the guide to the Eric Hoffer papers, 1934-1985, (Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace)

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