βPanicβ: The impact of Le Bon's crowd ps
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Joseph W. Bendersky
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The controversial crowd psychology of Gustave Le Bon has been both praised as an incisive contribution to social theory and also condemned as a doctrine of irrationality and mass manipulation associated with fascism. New archival documentation now demonstrates that Le Bon exercised sign