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Working and Thinking on the Waterfront

Working and Thinking on the Waterfront

Eric Hoffer

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Hopewell Publications
Año de edición:
2009
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ISBN:
9781933435299
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Eric Hoffer-one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge-history, science, mankind-formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Working and Thinking on the Waterfront is a rare glimpse into not only Hoffer's personal life but his thought process while postulating his great future works. (Restored to print by noted author Christopher Klim.) 3

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