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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.
©2011 Jon Ronson; (P)2011 Tantor
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.
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