Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Little, Brown and Company
October 2013
On Sale: October 1, 2013
320 pages ISBN: 0316204366 EAN: 9780316204361 Kindle: B00BAXFAOW Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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 Gladwellchallenges 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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