Table Of Content

Cover Page: 1 Title Page Page: 2 Copyright Page: 3 Dedication Page: 5 Author’s Note Page: 7 Introduction: “Step out of the car!” Page: 8 Part One: Spies and Diplomats: Two Puzzles Page: 11 Chapter One: Fidel Castro’s Revenge Page: 12 Chapter Two: Getting to Know der Führer Page: 15 Part Two: Default to Truth Page: 21 Chapter Three: The Queen of Cuba Page: 22 Chapter Four: The Holy Fool Page: 32 Chapter Five: Case Study: The Boy in the Shower Page: 37 Part Three: Transparency Page: 47 Chapter Six: The Friends Fallacy Page: 48 Chapter Seven: A (Short) Explanation of the Amanda Knox Case Page: 54 Chapter Eight: Case Study: The Fraternity Party Page: 59 Part Four: Lessons Page: 75 Chapter Nine: KSM: What Happens When the Stranger Is a Terrorist? Page: 76 Part Five: Coupling Page: 83 Chapter Ten: Sylvia Plath Page: 84 Chapter Eleven: Case Study: The Kansas City Experiments Page: 92 Chapter Twelve: Sandra Bland Page: 96 Afterword Page: 105 Acknowledgments Page: 108 Discover More Page: 109 Notes Page: 110 Permissions Page: 127 About the Author Page: 128 Also by Malcolm Gladwell Page: 129 Acclaim for Malcolm Gladwell’s "Talking to Strangers" Page: 130

Description:

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 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.