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 edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "Step out of the car!"
- Part one: Spies and diplomats: two puzzles. Fidel Castro's revenge ; Getting to know der Führer
- Part two: Default to truth. The queen of Cuba ; The holy fool ; Case study: The boy in the shower
- Part three: Transparency. The Friends fallacy ; A (short) explanation of the Amanda Knox case ; Case study: The fraternity party
- Part four: Lessons. KSM: what happens when the stranger is a terrorist?
- Part five: Coupling. Sylvia Plath ; Case study: The Kansas City experiments ; Sandra Bland.