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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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Knocks it out of the park everytime
By retrojusticeb
The weakest of his works. The 2 stars might be a function of comparative expectations as his prior works were exceptional. He far too often lets his personal views encroach upon the data and findings. I was particularly struck by the juxtaposition of an incredibly cool analysis of the problems of monoculture in cheetahs (awesome chapter) and then the immediate lack of seeing the effects of a monoculture in an Ivy League class and advocating for a CalTech like monoculture. All in all he skimmed interesting topics but didn’t dig to the profound as he had some previously
By A Tuareg in the desert