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.
Extraordinary Popular Delusions: And the Madness of Crowds
Brand: Farrar Straus Giroux
$69.30 - $79.70
- UPC:
- 9780374151249
- Maximum Purchase:
- 3 units
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- Publication Date:
- 1974-01-21
- Author:
- Charles MacKay
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 3rd