psychology May 2011

Simultaneous Release Jon Ronson

Read by the author
Read by the author
Category: Psychology
Running Time: 8 hrs 30 min - Unabridged
Hardcover: 05/12/2011 (35,000 Riverhead)
Territory: US
On Sale Date: 05/12/2011
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Jon Ronson is a writer and documentary filmmaker.
His books Them: Adventures with Extremists and The
Men Who Stare at Goats were both international best-
sellers, and The Men Who Stare at Goats was released
as a major motion picture in 2009, starring George
Clooney. Jon lives in London.
The Psychopath Test
A Journey Through the Madness Industry
In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investi-
gates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists,
and everyone else who studies them.
The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the
minds of madness. Jon Ronson’s exploration of a potential
hoax being played on the world’s top neurologists takes
him, unexpectedly, 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 little 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, disturbingly, that sometimes the personalities at
the helm of the madness industry are, with their drives and
obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study. And
that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined
by their maddest edges.
Marketing
• International bestselling author of Them, and The
Men Who Stare at Goats, which was made into a major
motion picture starring George Clooney in 2009
• National publicity campaign
• National radio satellite tour
• National print reviews and features
• BBC and PBS appearances
• Author Web site: www.jonronson.com

Praise for them and the men who stare at goats

“I’ve never read such a delightful book on such a serious and
important topic.” —The Nation
“A tremendous and discomforting achievement.” 
 —The Boston Globe
“Often entertaining, more often disturbing... [Ronson] has
gotten closer to these people than any journalist I can think
of.” —The New York Times

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