Bibliograph

Talking to strangers, what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell

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Talking to strangers, what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-623)

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Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Talking to strangers

Medium

text large print

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

1114310439

Responsibility statement

Malcolm Gladwell

Sub title

what we should know about the people we don't know

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

Target audience

adult

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