جزییات کتاب
"Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" is a landmark study of crowd psychology and mass mania and a singular casebook of human folly throughout the ages. Chronicled here are accounts of swindles, schemes, and scams on a grand scale. Other chapters deal with fads and delusions that have sprung from ideas, beliefs, and causes that still have champions today: the prophecies of Nostradamus, the coming of comets and Judgment Day, the Rosicrucians, and astrology. The book also surveys controversial people and movements of the past: necromancy, Father Hell and Magnetism, Anthony Mesmer and Mesmerism, the Crusades, sorcery and the burning of witches, not to mention the popularity of murder by slow poisoning.
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چارلز فالن مککیم (به انگلیسی: Charles Follen McKim) متولد ۱۸۴۷ ایالت پنسیلوانیا، معمار آمریکایی قرن نوزدهم بود.مک کیم بسیاری از آثار خود را در شرق آمریکا طراحی نمود و دانش آموختهٔ مدرسه معماری بوزار فرانسه بود.