Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
By Charles Mackay
- Release Date: 2012-08-24
- Genre: History
Description
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.