Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds

Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux

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UPC:
9780374151249
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication Date:
1974-01-21
Author:
Charles MacKay
Language:
english
Edition:
3rd
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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.