TALKING TO STRANGERS / WHAT WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THE PEOPLE WE DON'T KNOW

How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus se xual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? Talking t o Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psycholo gy, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia ...[Read more]