Crowds in American Culture, Society and Politics : A Psychosocial Semiotic Analysis

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.