Times. It was the winner of the 800-CEO-Read Business Book Award for Globalization and a finalist for the Goldman Sachs Best Business Book. It has sold more than 50,000 copies in all formats. * Bernstein is an elegant, fluid writer. The sections on the psychology and biology behind human mass irrationality are erudite but still easily accessible, and the chronicles of group madness are page-turning. Bernstein layers in the latest scientific and psychological research to explain why people go mad in groups, which gives his book deep authority. * The Delusions of Crowds will appeal to readers of big idea history, such as Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel , and of books by the likes of Yuval Noah Harari and Steven Pinker. * Bernstein's views on the influence of End-Times belief in America's military and politics are alarming, to say the least, mirroring attitudes in Israel and the Middle East. The fervency of such belief is a potentially very dangerous spark. * Bernstein retells well-known stories like the South Sea Bubble and 1929 Wall Street crash from new angles, making them fresh; for example, his focal point for the 1929 crash is "Sunshine Charlie" Mitchell, who sold gullible investors millions of ultimately worthless shares, and was brought down by a little known lawyer named Ferdinand Pecora. * The Delusions of Crowds includes diagrams and maps running throughout the text as well as a color insert section.