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We all relish a good scandal—the larger the figure (governor, judge) and more shocking the particulars (diapers, cigars)—the better. But why do people feel compelled to act out their tangled psychodramas on the national stage, and why do we so enjoy watching them, hurling our condemnations while savoring every lurid detail? With "pointed daggers of prose" ( The New Yorker ), Laura Kipnis examines contemporary downfall sagas to lay bare the American what we desire, what we punish, and what we disavow. She delivers virtuoso analyses of four paradigmatic a lovelorn astronaut, an unhinged judge, a venomous whistleblower, and an over-imaginative memoirist. The motifs are classic—revenge, betrayal, ambition, madness—though the pitfalls are ones we all negotiate daily. After all, every one of us is a potential scandal in the failed self-knowledge and colossal self-deception—the necessary ingredients—are our collective plight. In How to Become a Scandal , bad behavior is the entry point for a brilliant cultural romp as well as an anti-civics lesson. "Shove your rules," says scandal, and no doubt every upright citizen, deep within, cheers the transgression—as long as it's someone else's head on the block
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HOW TO BECOME A SCANDAL: ADVENTURES IN BAD BEHAVIOR
ISBN: 0639277697790
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