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Also by Jon Ronson:

So You've Been Publicly Shamed, April 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Lost At Sea, November 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
The Psychopath Test, May 2011
Hardcover
The Men Who Stare at Goats, April 2006
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Them, January 2003
Trade Size (reprint)

SO YOU'VE BEEN PUBLICLY SHAMED
By: Jon Ronson

Riverhead
April 2015
On Sale: March 31, 2015
306 pages
ISBN: 1594487138
EAN: 9781594487132
Kindle: B00L9B7IRC
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction

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.

Media Buzz

PBS News Hour - May 18, 2015
Morning Edition - March 31, 2015
Daily Show with Jon Stewart - March 24, 2015