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

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

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Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a boy, he related to the cultural figures who represented goodness-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 wantedto 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)?

In I Wear the Black Hat, Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern people understand the concept of villainy.

What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don't we see Batman the same way we see Bernhard Goetz?

Who's more worthy of our vitriol-Bill Clinton or Don Henley?

What was O.J. Simpson's second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still obsessed with some kid he knew for one week in 1985?

Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limitless imagination, I Wear the Black Hatdelivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the anti-hero (seemingly the only kind of hero America still creates).

I Wear the Black Hatis the rare example of serious criticism that's instantly accessible and really, really funny.

Klosterman is the only writer doing whatever it is he's doing.

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