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

Name: I Wear the Black Hat Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
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ISBN: 9781439184509

ISBN-10: 143918450X

ISBN-13: 9781439184509

Edition: 2013

Authors: Chuck Klosterman

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 7/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Chuck Klosterman, currently a music, film, & culture critic for Ohio's "Akron Beacon Journal", began his career with "The Forum" in Fargo, North Dakota. He lives in Akron, Ohio, where he once consumed nothing but McDonald's Chicken McNuggets for seven straight days.