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Extraordinary popular delusions & the madness of crowds / by Charles Mackay ; with a foreword by Andrew Tobias.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889.
- Standardized Title:
- Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Impostors and imposture.
- Swindlers and swindling.
- Occultism--Early works to 1900.
- Occultism.
- Delusions.
- Social psychology.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 740 pages, 11 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Crown Trade Paperbacks, [1995?]
- Summary:
- A complete repackaging of the classic work about grand-scale madness, major schemes and bamboozlement--and the universal human susceptibility to all three--this informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions, from witch burnings to the Great Crusades to the prophecies of Nostradamus.
- Notes:
- Originally published as: Memoirs of extraordinary popular delusions. London : R. Bentley, 1841.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 051788433X
- OCLC:
- 33863478
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