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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New York
Little, Brown and Company
2019
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| Edition: | First international mass market edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "Step out of the car!"
- Part I. Spies and diplomats : two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer
- Part II. Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study : The boy in the shower
- Part III. Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study : The fraternity party
- Part IV. Lessons. KSM : what happens when the stranger is a terrorist?
- Part V. Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study : The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland