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RIVERHEAD Trade Paperback May 2012
the PsychOPath test
A Journey through the Madness Industry
Jon Ronson
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The New York Times bestseller that touched a
cultural nerve—a madcap investigation into
the world of psychopaths and the industry
that studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds
of madness. When Jon Ronson looks into a potential hoax being
played on the world’s top neurologists, he’s unexpectedly taken
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 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
that sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry
are as mad in their own way as those they study, and that relatively
ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their maddest edges.
978-1-59448-575-6 • $16.00/$17.00 Can.
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288 pp./5 1/2” x 8 1/4”/Carton: 40/Psychology/Pop Culture
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On sale May 1, 2012 Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary filmmaker. His books Them:
Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats were both
international bestsellers. The Men Who Stare at Goats was made into a
major motion picture in 2009, starring George Clooney. Ronson lives in
London. Author website: jonronson.com
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