Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds #1-3

Charles Mackay

378 pages first pub 1841 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology adventurous informative slow-paced
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The subjects of Mackay's debunking include economic bubbles, crusades & witch-hunts, fortune-telling, medical quackery in curing disease, haunted houses, popular follies of great cities, and the popular admiration of great criminals. This is a...

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