Talking to Strangers

What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know

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Pub Date 10 Sep 2019 | Archive Date 10 Dec 2019

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, 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?

Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. 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. In his first book since his #1 bestseller, David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.

Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and What the Dog Saw, offers a powerful examination of...


Advance Praise

"The latest intellectually stimulating book from the acclaimed author. Every few years, journalist Gladwell assembles serious scientific research on oddball yet relevant subjects and then writes a bestseller. Readers expecting another everything-you-think-you-know-is-wrong page-turner will not be disappointed...Another Gladwell tour de force." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A thoughtful treatise...Gladwell writes in his signature colorful, fluid, and accessible prose...Both fascinating and topical." —Publishers Weekly

"The latest intellectually stimulating book from the acclaimed author. Every few years, journalist Gladwell assembles serious scientific research on oddball yet relevant subjects and then writes a...


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ISBN 9780316478526
PRICE $30.00 (USD)
PAGES 400

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Malcolm Gladwell takes his characteristic forensic voice and speaks on a topic that is incredibly timely and powerful in this book. What churns in the minds of others in violent and inhumane moments forms that basis for this conversation.

Gladwell’s use of analysis and narrative examples prods the heart of this issue. Highly recommended — and may the conversation on this topic continue and cause positive solutions.

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A well written book about how when we go into conversations with strangers things can go terribly wrong based on our assumptions on how they should act. Reading a Gladwell book always leaves you feeling a little smarter and leaves you wondering how you never thought of that. A quick read that gets the job done and includes stories we all know such as Amanda Knox, Sandusky, Bernie Madoff etc and tackles them in his signature style. Pick up this book and you will be happy you gave it your time.
Thank you Netgalley, Little, Brown and Company and Gladwell for the ARC in exchange for my opinion.

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