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The podcast host of “Revisionist History” and best-selling author of Outliers presents a controversial reassessment of leading news stories that offers strategic tips for more accurate and productive interactions with strangers. 1.5 million first printing.

 

The popular podcast host and author explores how people interact with strangers and why these exchanges often go wrong, offering strategic tips for more accurate and productive interactions.

 

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?

 

While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists, military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. You actually hear the contentious arrest of Sandra Bland by the side of the road in Texas. As Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, and the suicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-life tragedies. There's even a theme song - Janelle Monae's "Hell You Talmbout."

 

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.

 

Table of Contents

Author's Note xi

Introduction: "Step out of the car!" 1 (16)

PART ONE SPIES AND DIPLOMATS: TWO PUZZLES

 

One Fidel Castro's Revenge

17 (11)

Two Getting to Know der Fiihrer

28 (25)

PART TWO DEFAULT TO TRUTH

 

Three The Queen of Cuba

53 (36)

Four The Holy Fool

89 (18)

Five Case Study: The Boy in the Shower

107 (38)

PART THREE TRANSPARENCY

 

Six The Friends Fallacy

145 (23)

Seven A (Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case

168 (19)

Eight Case Study: The Fraternity Party

187 (48)

PART FOUR LESSONS

 

Nine KSM: What Happens When the Stranger Is a Terrorist?

235 (30)

PART FIVE COUPLING

 

Ten Sylvia Plath

265 (32)

Eleven Case Study: The Kansas City Experiments

297 (16)

Twelve Sandra Bland

313 (34)

Acknowledgments 347 (2)

Notes 349 (31)

Index 380