I Wear the Black Hat - Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) (Paperback, New)

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and "New York Times" bestselling author Chuck Klosterman "offers up great facts, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this look at our love affair with the anti-hero" ("New York" magazine).
Chuck Klosterman, "The Ethicist" for "The" "New York Times Magazine," has walked into the darkness. In "I Wear the Black Hat," he questions the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying, and why are we so obsessed with saying it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don't we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriol--Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson's second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still haunted by some kid he knew for one week in 1985?
Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, "I Wear the Black Hat" delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates). As the "Los Angeles Times" notes: "By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our culture, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture--and maybe even American morality." "I Wear the Black Hat" is a rare example of serious criticism that's instantly accessible and really, really funny.

General

Imprint:	Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2014
First published:	July 2014
Authors:	Chuck Klosterman
Dimensions:	212 x 140 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	242
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4391-8450-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Popular psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4391-8450-X
Barcode:	9781439184509

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