The difficult thing in life is keeping one's mind open enough to examine new ideas, but not so open that the tested and true ideas fall out.
Seriously, I majored in history and Hoffers book was required reading in about 1/2 my classes. If you have the guts to read it, you`ll understand my post.
He won't. He'd really love the Venetian nationalist in Dibdin's The Dead Lagoon, though.