A Colorful History of Popular Delusions KN and his musings on everything

and his musings on everything from music and politics to quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis

Eminently practical and authoritative

He also established that the orbits of the planets were elliptical in shape and not circular

No one's seen Fancher in years

such as the withholding of wages

A Colorful History of Popular Delusions KN and his musings on everythingThis eclectic history of unusual crowd behavior describes a rich assortment of mass phenomena ranging from the amusing and quirky to the shocking and deplorable. What do fads, crazes, manias, urban legends, moral panics, riots, stampedes, and other mass expressions of emotion have in common? By creating a typology of such behavior, past and present, the authors show how common extraordinary group reactions to fear or excitement are. And they offer