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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 worldโs most overlooked forces.
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has been immersing himself in the world of modern-day public shamingโmeeting famous shamees, shamers, and bystanders who have been impacted. This is the perfect time for a modern-day Scarlet Letterโa 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 isnโt 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 doesnโt cross our minds to wonder if the shamed person is okay or in ruins. Whatโs it doing to them? Whatโs it doing to us?
Ronsonโs 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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