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Readers describe Malcolm Gladwell’s return to his tipping-point framework as darker and more cautionary, probing social contagion, superspreaders, the “Magic Third,” and the ethics of social engineering. Many praise his narrative verve and highly produced audio edition, citing vivid case studies spanning COVID, the opioid crisis, bank robberies, and elite admissions. Just as many, however, fault the book for rehashing old ideas, leaning on anecdotes and cherry-picked evidence, and stitching together stories with tenuous logic; some also find the tone preachy or politicized. Overall, it’s engaging and provocative but polarizing—often read as a compelling set of essays rather than a cohesive, rigorous grand theory.

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Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns in this New York Times bestseller that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

Why is Miami ... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.

Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously.

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  • Title Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
  • Author Malcolm Gladwell
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company
  • Publication date 2024-10-01
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780316575805 / 0316575801
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.77 x 1.27 in (20.78 x 14.66 x 3.23 cm)
  • Category Psychology
  • Library of Congress subjects Social psychology, Epidemics
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2024911841
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.13

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  • Booklist, 09/01/2024, Page 10
  • Kirkus Reviews, 09/01/2024, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/01/2024, Page 13
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/21/2024, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 10/17/2024, Page 0

About the author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. He is also the cofounder of Pushkin Industries, an audio-content company that produces Revisionist History, among other podcasts and audiobooks. He was born in England, raised in Canada, and lives outside New York with his family and a cat named Biggie Smalls.
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