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by Malcolm Gladwell

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A BLOOMBERG AND FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true?

While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There's even a theme song - Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout."

Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world.

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  • Title Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know
  • Author Malcolm Gladwell
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 640
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Publication date 2019-09-01
  • Large Print Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Large Print
  • ISBN 9780316535571 / 0316535575
  • Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.6 x 2 in (20.57 x 14.22 x 5.08 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Social psychology, Large type books
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302

About the author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers--The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the TIME 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy's Top Global Thinkers.

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