Episode 52: True Believers and the Case of the Writer Turned Congressman
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.
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Show Notes
Jake and Phil are joined by former Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer to discuss longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer’s 1951 book, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, and the poem “On Reading Crowds and Power,” by Geoffrey Hill.
The Manifesto (an edition with some very cool cover art):
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
https://archive.org/details/truebelieverthou0000hoff/mode/2up
The Art:
On Reading Crowds and Power
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49285/on-reading-crowds-and-power