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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast _Revisionist History_ and author of the #1 _New York Times_ bestseller _Outliers_, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers, and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? _Talking to Strangers_ is a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm Gladwell revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know, and the resulting conflict and misunderstanding have a profound effect on our lives and our world. Now, with _Talking to Strangers_, Malcolm Gladwell brings us a gripping guidebook for troubled times.