Editing Jon Ronson (section)

=== Writing ===
[[File:Jon Ronson by Walnut Whippet.jpg|thumb|left|Ronson in January 2007]]
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Ronson gained fame writing a column for ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'', consisting of a series of challenges he set himself. He later adapted this into a television series, '' The Ronson Mission'', for [[BBC2]] in 1993.<ref>[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/78e34590d3484adb8bfa19f38a2eeb83 Def II: The Ronson Mission]. BBC. Retrieved 2024-11-10.</ref>
Ronson's first book, ''Clubbed Class'' (1994), is a travelogue in which he bluffs his way into a [[jet set]] lifestyle, in search of the world's finest holiday.<ref>{{cite web |title= Clubbed Class by Jon Ronson |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37472.Clubbed_Class |work= [[GoodReads]].com |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

His second book, ''[[Them: Adventures with Extremists]]'' (2001), chronicles his experiences with people labelled as [[extremists]]. Subjects featured in the book include [[David Icke]], [[Randy Weaver]], [[Omar Bakri Muhammad]], [[Ian Paisley]], [[Alex Jones]], and [[Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)|Thomas Robb]]. Ronson also follows independent investigators of secretive groups such as the [[Bilderberg Group]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Rakoff |first=Joanna |title=Jon Ronson |url=http://www.salon.com/2002/03/14/ronson_2/ |work=Salon |date=15 March 2002 |access-date=10 November 2012}}</ref> The narrative tells of Ronson's attempts to infiltrate the "shadowy cabal" fabled, by these [[conspiracy theorists]], to rule the world.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okg6WBbMjzQC&q=them%20adventures%20with%20extremists&pg=PA91 |title=Them:Adventures in Extremism p91 |access-date=4 November 2009 |isbn=978-1-4391-2673-8 |last1=Ronson |first1=Jon |date=28 June 2011|publisher=Simon and Schuster }}</ref> ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' noted: "It is how he reveals the all-too-real machinations of Western society's radical fringe and its various minions that makes this enjoyable work rather remarkable."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780743227070|title=

THEM: Adventures with Extremists|website=Publishers Weekly|date=12 November 2001|access-date=13 January 2024}}</ref> The book was described by [[Louis Theroux]] as a "funny and compulsively readable [[picaresque]] adventure through a paranoid shadow world."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,4166306,00.html |title=Stranger than fiction |access-date=4 March 2009 |last=Theroux |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Theroux |date=7 April 2001 |work=The Guardian |location=London}}</ref> ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' magazine announced in September 2005 that ''Them'' had been purchased by [[Universal Pictures]] for a feature film.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/them-makes-way-to-u-1117929334/|title='Them' makes way to U|last=Fleming|first=Michael|work=Variety|date=19 September 2005|access-date=20 November 2012}}</ref>

Ronson contributed the memoir "A Fantastic Life" to the [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]] anthology ''Truth or Dare'', in 2004.<ref>{{cite web |title= Truth Or Dare: A Book Of Secrets Shared by Justine Picardie |url= http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/616081.Truth_Or_Dare |work= GoodReads.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

Ronson's third book, ''[[The Men Who Stare at Goats]]'' (2004), deals with the secret [[New Age]] unit within the [[United States Army]] called the [[First Earth Battalion]]. Ronson investigates people such as Major General [[Albert Stubblebine]] III, former head of intelligence, who believed that people can walk through walls with the right mental preparation, and that goats can be killed simply by staring at them. Much was based on the ideas of Lt. Col. [[Jim Channon]], ret., who wrote the ''First Earth Battalion Operations Manual'' in 1979, inspired by the emerging [[Human Potential Movement]] of California. The book suggests that these New Age military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at [[Guantanamo Bay detainment camp|Guantanamo Bay]]. An [[The Men Who Stare at Goats (film)|eponymous film]] of the book was released in 2009, in which Ronson's investigations were fictionalised and structured around a journey to [[Iraq]]. Ronson is played by the actor [[Ewan McGregor]] in the film.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234548/ |title=The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |work=IMDb |access-date=21 June 2009}}</ref>

Ronson's fourth book, ''[[Out of the Ordinary]]: True Tales of Everyday Craziness'' (2006; [[Picador (imprint)|Picador]] and [[Guardian Books]]), is a collection of his ''Guardian'' articles, mostly those concerning his domestic life. A companion volume was ''What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness'' (2007).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |title=news |publisher=jonronson.com |access-date=21 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141228103453/http://www.jonronson.com/news.html |archive-date=28 December 2014  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= What I Do: More True Tales of Everyday Craziness by Jon Ronson |url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2135080.What_I_Do |work=GoodReads.com |access-date=23 June 2021}}</ref>

''[[The Psychopath Test]]: A Journey Through the Madness Industry'' (2011) is Ronson's fifth book. In it, he explores the nature of [[psychopath]]ic behaviour, learning how to apply the [[Hare Psychopathy Checklist]], and investigating its reliability. He interviews people in facilities for the criminally insane as well as potential [[Psychopathy in the workplace|psychopaths in corporate boardrooms]].<ref>{{cite web |last= Tartakovsky |first= Margarita |title= The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry By Jon Ronson book review |url=http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/ |work= PsychCentral.com | publisher= Psych Central| url-status=dead| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517224035/http://psychcentral.com/lib/2011/the-psychopath-test-a-journey-through-the-madness-industry/| archivedate= 17 May 2013 |access-date=26 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Blincoe |first=Nicholas |title= The Psychopath Test: A Journey through the Madness Industry By Jon Ronson: review |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8565585/The-Psychopath-Test-A-Journey-through-the-Madness-Industry-by-Jon-Ronson-review.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=26 November 2012 |location=London |date=13 June 2011}}{{cbignore}}</ref> The book's findings have been rejected by The Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy and by [[Robert D. Hare]], creator of the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://psychopathysociety.org/page/RonsonCommentary|title=General Ronson Commentary | website= psychopathysociety.org | publisher= Society for the Scientific Study of Psychopathy |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref><ref name="Hare">{{cite web|url=http://www.hare.org/comments/comment3.html|title=A Commentary on Ronson's The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry| website= hare.org| first= Robert D.| last= Hare| access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> Hare described the book as "frivolous, shallow, and professionally disconcerting".<ref name=Hare /> 

''[[Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries]]'' (2012), Ronson's sixth book, is a collection of previously published articles by him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|title=Book Review: 'Lost At Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries'|first=Miles|last=Winston|access-date=20 January 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150402165100/http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/11/book-review-lost-seathe-jon-ronson-mysteries|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Ronson's book ''[[So You've Been Publicly Shamed]]'' (2015) concerns the effects of [[online shaming|public humiliation]] in the internet age.<ref>{{Cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/books/review/jon-ronsons-so-youve-been-publicly-shamed.html|title=Jon Ronson's 'So You've Been Publicly Shamed'|last=Sicha|first=Choire|date=17 April 2015|work=The New York Times| access-date=21 June 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>