The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey through the minds of madness.
Jon Ronson's exploration of a potential hoax being played on the world's
top neurologists takes him, unexpectedly, into the heart of the madness
industry. An influential psychologist who is convinced that many important
CEOs and politicians are, in fact, psychopaths, teaches Ronson how to spot
these high-flying individuals by looking out for little telltale verbal
and nonverbal clues. And so Ronson, armed with his new psychopath-spotting
abilities, enters the corridors of power.

He spends time with a death-squad leader institutionalized for mortgage
fraud in Coxsackie, New York; a legendary CEO whose psychopathy has been
speculated about in the press; and a patient in an asylum for the criminally
insane who insists he's sane and certainly not a psychopath. Ronson not only
solves the mystery of the hoax but also discovers, disturbingly, that
sometimes the personalities at the helm of the madness industry are, with
their drives and obsessions, as mad in their own way as those they study.
And that relatively ordinary people are, more and more, defined by their
maddest edges.

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