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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
Jon Ronson
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
306 pages
ISBN: 1594487138
EAN: 9781594487132
Kindle: B00L9B7IRC
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From the internationally bestselling author of
The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant
exploration of one of our world’s most overlooked forces.
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has
been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public
shaming—meeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who
have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a
modern-day Scarlet Letter—a radically empathetic book
about public shaming, and about shaming as a form of social
control. It has become such a big part of our lives it has
begun to feel weird and empty when there isn’t
anyone to be furious about. Whole careers are being ruined
by one mistake. A transgression is revealed. Our collective
outrage at it has the force of a hurricane. Then we all
quickly forget about it and move on to the next one, and it
doesn’t cross our minds to wonder if the shamed person is
okay or in ruins. What’s it doing to them? What’s it doing
to us?
Ronson’s book is a powerful, funny, unique,
and very humane dispatch from the frontline, in the
escalating war on human nature and its flaws.
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