Drawing on Gustave Le Bon and Sigmond Freud’s works, this book provides important insights into the role of crowds in shaping American culture, politics, and society.

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society, and politics. It offers a detailed description of Le Bon’s book along with material on Freud’s book on group psychology, crowds and cults, the semiotics of crowds, American national character and crowds, the 1/6 attackon the Capitol, and crowds and COVID-19.