Talking to Strangers : What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know (9780316535571)

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?
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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 640 pages
• Dimensions 142 x 206 x 51mm | 680g
• Publication date 16 Oct 2019
• Publisher Cengage Learning, Inc
• Imprint Thorndike Press
• Publication City/Country Thorndike, United States
• Language English
• Edition Large type / large print
• Edition Statement Large type / large print edition
• ISBN10 0316535575
• ISBN13 9780316535571
• Bestsellers rank 248,897

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