Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds

Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux

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UPC:
9780374151249
Binding:
Hardcover
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Publication Date:
1/21/1974
Author:
Charles MacKay
Language:
english
Edition:
3rd
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Product Overview

Presents a study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. This title chronicles accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. It also surveys controversial people and movements of the past: necromancy, Father Hell and Magnetism, Anthony Mesmer and Mesmerism, and the Crusades.