Hoffer, Eric

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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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Role Title Holding Repository
referencedIn William Gedney Photographs and Writings, 1940s-1989 David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
referencedIn Green, Robert. Papers, 1961-2002. Andover-Harvard Theological Library
creatorOf Eric Hoffer papers, 1934-1985 Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
referencedIn George S. Schuyler Papers, 1912-1976. Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center
referencedIn New Yorker records New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division
referencedIn Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
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associatedWith Communist Party of the United States of America. corporateBody
associatedWith Gedney, William, d. 1989 person
associatedWith Green, Robert. person
correspondedWith New Yorker Magazine, Inc corporateBody
associatedWith Schuyler, George Samuel, 1895- person
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