Talking to strangers what we should know about the people we don't know
In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came fr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Little, Brown and Company
2019
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| Edition: | First international mass market edition |
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| Summary: | In this thoughtful treatise spurred by the 2015 death of African-American academic Sandra Bland in jail after a traffic stop, New Yorker writer Gladwell (The Tipping Point) aims to figure out the strategies people use to assess strangers-to "analyze, critique them, figure out where they came from, figure out how to fix them," in other words: to understand how to balance trust and safety. He uses a variety of examples from history and recent headlines to illustrate that people size up the motivations, emotions, and trustworthiness of those they don't know both wrongly and with misplaced confidence |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 386 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-379) and index |
| ISBN: | 9780316462914 9780316478526 (hbk) 0316478520 (hbk) |