{"product_id":"paperback-747","title":"Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know by Malcom Gladwell (Paperback)","description":"\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMalcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRevisionist History\u003c\/i\u003e and author of the #1 \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOutliers\u003c\/i\u003e, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand why they often go wrong.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Detroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow 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?\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTalking to Strangers \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSomething 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 \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid and Goliath\u003c\/i\u003e, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.","brand":"Friends of the St Mary's County Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39376770203834,"sku":"","price":2.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/5806\/6334\/products\/101_4635.jpg?v=1616033524","url":"https:\/\/folstmarys.com\/products\/paperback-747","provider":"Friends of the St Mary's County Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}