num_pages: 277
description: 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.
language: English
title: Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
titlecomplete: Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness
genres: Biography, Mental Health, Science, Psychology, Nonfiction, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 245
publisher: Villard