Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Overview

A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Pres


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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780316535571
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication date: 09/10/2019
Edition description: Large Print
Pages: 640
Sales rank: 516,843
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.90(d)

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.

Hometown:

New York, NY

Date of Birth:

September 3, 1963

Place of Birth:

England, U.K.

Education:

University of Toronto, History degree, 1984

Table of Contents

Author's Note xvii

Introduction: "Step out of the car!" 1

Part 1 Spies and Diplomats Two Puzzles

1 Fidel Castro's Revenge 17

2 Getting to Know der Führer 28

Part 2 Default to Truth

3 The Queen of Cuba 53

4 The Holy Fool 89

5 Case Study: The Boy in the Shower 107

Part 3 Transparency

6 The Friends Fallacy 145

7 A (Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case 168

8 Case Study: The Fraternity Party 187

Part 4 Lessons

9 KSM: What Happens When the Stranger Is Terrorist? 235

Part 5 Coupling

10 Sylvia Plath 265

11 Case Study: The Kansas City Experiments 297

12 Sandra Bland 313

Afterword 347

Acknowledgments 357

Notes 359

Index 390

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