I propose something deeply controversial: the true author of William Shakespeare's plays was a man named William Shakespeare.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1126853548711587845 …
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Hoffer published THE TRUE BELIEVER in 1951, while he was still literally working as a longshoreman on the San Francisco docks. It's more relevant than ever in 2019. Some people really are just partially/self-educated geniuses. Shakespeare was one of them too.
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BTW, here's a great interview w/Hoffer by Eric Sevareid where he asks him how his fellow dockworkers felt about him being this 'intellectual type'. Hoffer (in his wonderfully thick accent) says "BUT THEY KNOW I AM ONE OF THEM! I AM REALLY AVERAGE!"https://youtu.be/kTcv4HyEY3w?t=297 …
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And then Hoffer points out that "you assume these people [his fellow longshoremen] are not intelligent; let me tell you, these people are tremendously intelligent."
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Part of the case against the actor's authorship is the author's knowledge of court life, life in other countries and Biblical knowledge etc. I don't believe an actor from that time period couldve had all of that knowledge.
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We really don't know much about Eric Hoffer's origins. He was a dockworker for many years, but where he was from and to what degree he was educated is unclear.https://www.hoover.org/research/eric-hoffer-genius-and-enigma …
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Eric Hoffer's fluency in Hebrew (I rather doubt he learned it in Los Angeles), his heavily-accented English, and his passion for Israel leads me to believe that he was a German-born Jew who immigrated to Palestine before coming to America in the 1930s. http://www.aei.org/publication/eric-hoffer-longshoreman-philosopher/ …
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If we listed all the supposed “hicks from the sticks” who wrote classics we could be here all day. Here are some other examples of great American writers who came from humble backgrounds: Samuel Clemons Willa Cather Jack London Flannery O’Connor Alexander Hamilton
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Flannery O'Connor was hardly a hick. She was remarkably well-educated, especially for a woman of that era. She didn't just graduate from college in an accelerated program, she was then accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa gaining her M.A.
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Or that Abraham Lincoln with no formal education and autodidact could write the greatest speeches in American history.
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Wait, I thought Albert Doolittle, in My Fair Lady, was the greatest social theorist.
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