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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Ronson, Jon
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- Good
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- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
- 0 lbs
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9781594485756
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1594485755
ISBN-13
9781594485756
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109058552
Product Key Features
Book Title
Psychopath Test : a Journey Through the Madness Industry
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2012
Topic
Social Scientists & Psychologists, Psychopathology / General, Popular Culture, History
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
7.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"Because of Ronson's relentless self-deprecation and goofy, British humor, it's easy to tag along without fully realizing the rigor of his reporting, which is itself frenzied with compulsive questioning and obsessive research." -- The Boston Globe "A rollicking, page-turner of a book... no ordinary piece of investigative journalism… Ronson's storytelling skills are strong enough to enliven even the necessary reflections that would be one yawn after another if entrusted to a lesser writer." -- San Francisco Chronicle "…A book that manages to be as cheerily kooky as it is well-researched." -- Los Angeles Times "Engagingly irreverent…" -- New York Times "[A] fascinating and humane book…" -- Washington Post Book World "…Both terrifying and hilarious." -- O, The Oprah Magazine, "Because of Ronson's relentless self-deprecation and goofy, British humor, it's easy to tag along without fully realizing the rigor of his reporting, which is itself frenzied with compulsive questioning and obsessive research." -- The Boston Globe "A rollicking, page-turner of a book... no ordinary piece of investigative journalism... Ronson's storytelling skills are strong enough to enliven even the necessary reflections that would be one yawn after another if entrusted to a lesser writer." -- San Francisco Chronicle "...A book that manages to be as cheerily kooky as it is well-researched." -- Los Angeles Times "Engagingly irreverent..." -- New York Times "[A] fascinating and humane book..." -- Washington Post Book World "...Both terrifying and hilarious." -- O, The Oprah Magazine
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
616.89
Synopsis
In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness. Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths teaches Ronson how to spot these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting abilities, enters the corridors of power. He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
LC Classification Number
HV33.R66 2012
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