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.
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