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I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
by Chuck Klosterman
- Used
- Very Good
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1439184496
- ISBN 13
- 9781439184493
- Seller
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Newtown, New South Wales, Australia
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Synopsis
Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodnessâÈ'but as an adult, he found himself unconsciously aligning with their enemies. This was not because he necessarily liked what they were doing; it was because they were doing it on purpose (and they were doing it better). They wanted to be evil. And what, exactly, was that supposed to mean? 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 deliberate malevolence operate? In I Wear the Black Hat , Klosterman questions the modern understanding of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why donâÈçt we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we see Batman? Who is more worthy of our vitriolâÈ'Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O. J. SimpsonâÈçs 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). I Wear the Black Hat is a rare example of serious criticism thatâÈçs instantly accessible and really, really funny. Klosterman continues to be the only writer doing whatever it is heâÈçs doing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Goulds Book Arcade
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 173446
- Title
- I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
- Author
- Chuck Klosterman
- Format/Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1439184496
- ISBN 13
- 9781439184493
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York N.Y., London, U.K.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- [[205G LITERARY ANALYSIS VILLIANS EVIL
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