Revenge of the Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

Why is MiamiMiami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns for the first time in twenty-five years to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of riveting stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. He takes us to the streets of Los Angeles to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscovers a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visits the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and offers an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis.Revenge of the Tipping Pointis Gladwell's most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of modern world. It's time we took tipping points seriously. (From Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)

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Malcolm Gladwell has written many nonfiction books including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers and The Bomber Mafia. Gladwell is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, a company that produces the podcast Revisionist History among others as well as audiobooks. Gladwell grew up in Elmira, Ont. and now lives in the U.S.

Interviews with Malcolm Gladwell

Writers and Company52:48Malcolm Gladwell on his Jamaican roots, growing up in rural Ontario and why being first is overrated

One of the most brilliant and influential writers of his generation, Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the Revisionist History podcast and author of many bestselling books, including The Tipping Point, Blink and Talking to Strangers. In 2012, Gladwell spoke to Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Toronto Reference Library as part of Jamaica 50, a celebration of the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence. *This episode originally aired June 10, 2012.

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