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.
