<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ce1f0fb2-d6f8-410c-97bf-1063056f21bc/AC35B950-80FF-4A29-BCCB-397DDA12DA82/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en" href="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en" style="font-size: 11px;">www.amexpat.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.amexpat.com/img/C7C15204-5353-44F8-8A77-92F8B85C5F18" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><P>This famous book recounts extreme mass delusion (the "madding of crowds") which has periodically afflicted large groups of otherwise normal people over the centuries, not infrequently those living in the most "civilized" of nations.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><P>These group manias, especially those involving financial "bubbles", starkly and darkly reveal humanity at its very worst. (The Salem witch trials obviously come to mind — and national elections, of course!)</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><P>Here we present Volume One, the most popularly known and widely read.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><CENTER><IMG width="16" height="16" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.amexpat.com/images/stock/asterisk_red.gif" />Read more about <A target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738843083/theamerica035-20">Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (V1)</A> <IMG width="16" height="16" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.amexpat.com/images/stock/asterisk_red.gif" /></CENTER></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><EM>Index</EM></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><CENTER><SPAN class="minorlabel"><EM>Index</EM></SPAN></CENTER> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=1">National Delusions</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=2">The Mississippi Scheme</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=3">The South Sea Bubble</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=4">The Tulipomania</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=5">Relics</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=6">Modern Prophecies</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=7">Popular Admiration for Great Thieves</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=8">Influence of Politics and Religion on the Hair and Beard</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=9">Duels and Ordeals</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=10">The O.P. Mania</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=11">Popular Follies in Great Cities</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=12">The Love of the Marvellous and the Disbelief of the True</A> <A href="http://www.amexpat.com/chapter.php?newcnt=&id=0012&chapnum=13">The Thugs, or Phansigars</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.amexpat.com/defaults/books.php?nls=en"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><SMALL><EM>Year:</EM> 1841</SMALL></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AC35B950-80FF-4A29-BCCB-397DDA12DA82/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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