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Mass movements are interchangeable, Hoffer argues: converts join not from conviction but to be rid of themselves. Eisenhower handed the book around, and every new wave of fanaticism sends Americans back to it.
Canetti anatomizes the crowd as a natural force, then locates power in the survivor who stands alive among the dead. Every command, he argues, leaves a sting in whoever obeys it.
Shirer broadcast from Berlin as the rallies filled, then worked through captured German files and Nuremberg testimony to tell the story from beer hall to bunker. A million American households bought it.