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Revenge of the Tipping Point
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Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light. Why is Miami…Miami? 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 Point is 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.
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"Fans of the original will learn much from Gladwell's thoughtful, carefully written reconsideration."
"I devoured it, just as I did his first, though with more circumspection than my younger self, dwelling on its silences and omissions as much as its artistry."
"Gladwell deftly demonstrates how attention to statistics and data points can shape a business, school, or community."
"Gladwell's rules mainly seem to work in hindsight ..."
"Contains exactly zero anecdotes about marketing—a remarkable change, given that its predecessor's success was largely driven by the idea that businesses could use Gladwell's rules to sell more stuff ..."
"Gladwell is rehashing and rebuilding on the concepts that he first wrote about in 2000."
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