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

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Kernel of Truth

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In an age of social media and technology we are further removed from our fellow man than ever before. And with it so goes real interaction. This book is a fascinating look at the consequences of communication breakdown.

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

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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Published: 09/28/2021
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 9780316299220
Pages: 416
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.30d