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…
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 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.
