From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world"s most underappreciated forces: shame. "It"s about the terror, isn"t it?" "The terror of what?" I said. "The terror of being found out." For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they"re being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job. A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people"s faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by...