Released September 2019, it examines interactions with strangers, covers
examples that include the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda
Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia case at
Penn State, and the death of Sandra Bland.
Gladwell explained what
inspired him to write the book as being "struck by how many high profile
cases in the news were about the same thing—strangers misunderstanding
each other." It challenges the assumptions we are programmed to make when
encountering strangers, and the potentially dangerous consequences of
misreading people we do not know.
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