Chuck Klosterman: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)

I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)



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Author: Chuck Klosterman
Number of Pages: 242 pages
Published Date: 01 Aug 2014
Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781439184509
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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."