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Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness

by David Weeks, Jamie James · 1995

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From 1859 to 1880, Joshua Abraham Norton thought he was Emperor of the United States. Ann Atkin keeps 7,500 garden gnomes in her backyard. Brooklyn artist Peter McGough dresses and acts as if it were 1895. These are just a few of the eccentrics discussed by Dr. Weeks, the world's foremost expert on the subject.

Subject
psychologysciencesociologybiographyhistory
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 277 pages

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