A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune,and Detroit Free PresMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the#1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of ourinteractions with strangers -- and why they often go wrong.How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain thinkhe could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do televisionsitcoms 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 thepage. He was also producing for the ear.
In the audiobook version of Talking toStrangers, you'll hear the voices of people he interviewed--scientists, criminologists,military psychologists. Court transcripts are brought to life with re-enactments. Youactually 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 thesuicide of Sylvia Plath, you hear directly from many of the players in these real-lifetragedies. 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 tomake sense of people we don't know. And because we don't know how to talk tostrangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profoundeffect on our lives and our worl
