I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Real and Imagined) Audiobook (Free)

One-of-a-kind cultural critic and New York Times bestselling writer Chuck Klosterman “presents up great details, interesting cultural insights, and thought-provoking moral calculations in this take a look at our romance with the anti-hero” (NY publication).

Chuck Klosterman, “The Ethicist” for THE BRAND NEW York Times Journal, has walked in to the darkness. In I Put on the Black Hat, he queries the modern understanding of villainy. When we classify someone as a bad person, what exactly are we really stating, and about I Wear the Black Hat: Essays on Villains (Genuine and Imagined) why are we so obsessed with stating it? How does the culture of malevolence operate? What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why don’t we see Bernhard Goetz the same way we find Batman? Who’s more worth our vitriol-Bill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpson’s second-worst decision? And just why is normally Klosterman still haunted by some child he knew for one week in 1985?

Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and imaginative hypotheticals, I Wear the Dark Hat delivers perceptive observations on the complexity of the antihero (seemingly the only sort of hero America still creates). As the LA Times records: “By underscoring the contradictory, often knee-jerk ways we encounter the heroes and villains of our lifestyle, Klosterman illustrates the passionate but incomplete computations that have come to define American culture-and maybe even American morality.” I Use the Black Head wear is a rare example of critical criticism that’s immediately accessible and really, really funny.