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--now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press 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 one another that isn't true?
Talking to Strangers is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, 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 the resulting conflict and misunderstanding have a profound effect on our lives and our world. Now, with
Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell brings us a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Sobre o autor(a)
Gladwell, Malcolm
MALCOLM GLADWELL é colunista da revista The New Yorker desde 1996. Escreveu também O ponto da virada, Blink – A decisão num piscar de olhos, Fora de série – Outliers, Davi e Golias, O que se passa na cabeça dos cachorros e Falando com estranhos, todos best-sellers do The New York Times e publicados pela Editora Sextante. Trabalhou no jornal The Washington Post, cobrindo negócios e ciência. Foi nomeado uma das 100 pessoas mais influentes pela revista Time e um dos maiores pensadores globais pela Foreign Policy. Gladwell nasceu na Inglaterra, cresceu no interior do Canadá e hoje mora em Nova York. |