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Jon ronson is not afraid to put himself on the line for a great story, especially when he gets to venture to the fringes of society. His second book, the men who stare at goats, details the covert attempts of a topsecret military unit to. From the author of them and the men who stare at goats, this is a book exploring the psychopath. At ted2012, he told a part of that story on stage how he met a man named tony who was held for years in a psychiatric prison because he faked mental illness too well, and about how ronson himself became trained. The psychopath test audiobook by john ronson duration. The nonfiction book focuses on the diagnoses and behaviors of actual psychopaths. A journey through the madness industry, an exploration of what defines a psychopath. Jon ronsons exploration of a potential hoax being played on the worlds top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into. Cloaking his writing and commentary in a thin veil of.
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