American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of Eric Hoffer Jules Verne the Mao Dun Award

the Mao Dun Award

the island's owner had actually begun preparations against the attack years earlier

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When all odds are against him

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American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of Eric Hoffer Jules Verne the Mao Dun AwardIn this biography, historian and social analyst Tom Shachtman offers the clearest and most detailed examination to date of one of America's most influential thinkers. Known as the "longshoreman philosopher," Eric Hoffer was a beloved and controversial figure with veiled origins. Using Hoffer's never before seen archives, Shachtman uncovers the steps by which this unschooled migrant field hand and dockworker created himself as an artist and thinker,