Panati's parade of fads, follies, and manias: The origins of our most cherished obsessions

1991, hardcover edition, Harper Perennial, NY, 491 pages. Black & white photos / drawings throughout. This particular author has dedicated himself to many different volumes of material that has much to do about trivia and everything to do with American popular culture. Here he goes back to the 1890s and brings the time period forward to recent decades of nifty feats and fads indeed.