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To: Condor51

My husband has a copy of that book, it’s really good.

8 posted on 07/07/2007 7:45:01 AM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)

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To: Gabz; Condor51

The book is now available at Project Gutenberg: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Wikipedia summary: popular history of popular folly by Charles Mackay, first published in 1841

16 posted on 07/07/2007 7:55:41 AM PDT by Reeses

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To: Gabz; Condor51

I get the coolest ideas for books to buy from FR. I wonder if the book is still available. MMmm.

34 posted on 07/07/2007 8:25:47 AM PDT by tioga (I'll take Duncan Hunter or Fred Thompson for President. Pick one.)

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To: Gabz

Ask him if there’s anything in that book where, 160 years later, the crowds were right after all.

61 posted on 07/07/2007 11:11:50 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)

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