This complete edition compiles all three volumes, providing readers with a comprehensive look into the patterns of delusion that have repeated themselves over time.

Time and again, we can avoid disastrous pitfalls and learn to profit by seeing how history repeats itself. Fascinating, mesmerizing, strikingly strange, and amazingly wise, this book will never be forgotten and cannot be ignored.

This Harriman House edition includes Charles Mackay's account of the three infamous financial manias - John Law's Mississipi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and Tulipomania.Between the three of them, these historic episodes confirm that greed ...

Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume 3 By Charles Mackay

The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". MacKay was an accomplished teller of stories, though he wrote in a journalistic and somewhat sensational style.

The book chronicles its subjects in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions".

"Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Volume I" from Charles Mackay. Scottish poet, journalist, author, anthologist, novelist, and songwriter (1814-1889).