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Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling---book yet.
Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy
felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever
since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between
underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't
have won.
Or should he have?
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell challenges how we think
about obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it
means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a parent,
or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other apparent
setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant
and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and Goliath
examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer researchers and civil
rights leaders, murder and the high costs of revenge, and the dynamics of
successful and unsuccessful classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is
beautiful and important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and
adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping Point,
Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath
draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the way we
think of the world around us.
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