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

by Gladwell, Malcolm
ISBN: 9780316299220
4.5 (16)
Availability:
$9.49
Used - Trade Paperback - 9780316299220

Available Offers

Pickup at {0} Out of stock at {0} Check other stores
FREE -
Ship to Me
$3.99 - Get it Jun 10 - 13

Overview

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.

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 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.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Gladwell, Malcolm
  • ISBN: 9780316299220
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.23 x 1.17
  • Number Of Pages: 416
  • Publication Year: 2021

Customer Reviews

Rating Snapshot

5 ★   75%
4 ★   13%
3 ★   6%
2 ★   0%
1 ★   6%
4.5
16 Ratings

0

0% Would Recommend
0 Recommendations

Review Images

Sort by:
Filter by:

  • Another Gladwell deep dive.

    Bill R. - 5 years 1 month ago

    Fascinating insights on some of the most surprising events of our times. PSU Jerry Sandusky sex assaults, crime stopping strategies in big cities, spikes in suicide rates tied to seemingly unrelated factors and more. #SpringPicks

  • Eh...

    Kwaku K. - 5 years 6 months ago

    Not my favorite work of his. Very slow build and far reaching stories that don’t draw as much correlation in my opinion as past novels. Okay read no rush on this one however.

  • Read this book!

    Brianna N. - 5 years 11 months ago

    Timely, interesting, and well put together. I’ve always enjoyed Malcom Gladwell’s work and enjoyed the podcast like format to this book.

  • Read all his books

    SARA S. - 5 years 11 months ago

    I'm a big fan of Malcolm Gladwell's books. He is great at making tough subjects easy to read about. I found this book really interesting although it seems to cut off right at the end. It seemed like there should be a little more of a conclusion or summary. He talks about a lot of big names that we've seen in the news and goes into more detail about people who explained away their suspicions of them instead of trusting their guts.

  • Great read

    HPB S. - 5 years 11 months ago

    This was informative and a fascinating look at how we see others. #SummerReading