David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits & the Art of Battling Giants
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?
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Malcolm Gladwell joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in June, 1996. His articles include reports on the inventor of the Birth Control Pill, the power of personal connectors (“Six Degrees of Lois Weisberg”), the science of coolhunting, retail anthropology, race and sports, and physical genius. In July, 1996, he obtained the first interview with the family of a woman viciously beaten in New York’s Central Park. His 1997 article on the 1918 influenza pandemic was turned into a television movie. His 1996 New Yorker article “The Tipping Point” was expanded into a book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, which was published earlier this year. Mr. Gladwell came to The New Yorker from the Washington Post, where he began as a staff reporter in 1987, first in the business section and later as a science reporter. In 1993, he was named the newspaper’s New York City bureau chief. In 1995, he was a National Magazine Award finalist for an article on mammography published in The New Republic. Malcolm Gladwell was born in England in 1963. He graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. He lives in New York. For a real treat, check out Malcolm’s website at http://gladwell.com.
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- Malcolm Gladwell
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- Staff Writer
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