TY - BOOK AU - Le Bon,Gustave TI - The crowd AV - HM PY - 1996/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Crowds N1 - Translation of Psychologie des foules; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crowd:_A_Study_of_the_Popular_Mind; Release date is 1996-02-01; Scanned with OmniPage Professional OCR software donated by Caere Corporation; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind" by Gustave Le Bon is a book published in 1895. Le Bon explores how individuals transform when absorbed into crowds, losing reason and judgment while gaining impulsiveness and susceptibility to manipulation. He examines crowd characteristics, leadership dynamics, and different crowd types—from criminal mobs to electoral assemblies. The work analyzes how collective psychology shapes beliefs, institutions, and social movements, arguing that crowds possess a dangerous power that challenges individual civilization and rational thought. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445 ER -