Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay

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. Also

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Charles Mackay (27 March 1814 – 24 December 1889) was a Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist. And songwriter, remembered mainly for his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. Also

Charles Mackay was born in Perth, Scotland. His father, George Mackay, was a bombardier in the Royal Artillery. And his mother Amelia Cargill died shortly after his birth. Also

Mackay was educated at the Caledonian Asylum, in London. In 1828 he was placed by his father at a school in Brussels, on the Boulevard de Namur, and studied languages. In 1830 he was engaged as a private secretary to William Cockerill, the ironmaster, near Liege, began writing in French in the Courrier Belge. And sent English poems to a local newspaper called The Telegraph. Also In the summer of 1830 he visited Paris, and he spent 1831 with Cockerill at Aix-la-Chapelle. In May 1832 his father brought him back to London, where he first found employment in teaching Italian to the future opera manager Benjamin Lumley. Also