Chevy Chase Non Fiction Book Club!

"Talking to Strangers" by Malcolm Gladwell

Join us as we read and discuss a thought provoking title by the New York Times bestselling Canadian author Malcolm Gladwell.

"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 classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, 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 because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times." - Publisher.

Copies of the book are currently available for pick up at the circulation desk.  Learn more about the title by visiting this link to our MCPL catalog. You can also learn more at the publisher's website.

The Chevy Chase Non-Fiction Book Club is a friendly local group who read a variety of interesting information titles including history, biography, memoir, and engaging titles from the social sciences. Join us on the first Wednesday of the month from 3-4 in our lower level meeting room. The titles will be kept behind the Circulation Desk for pick up approximately one month prior to the the meeting. Hope to see you there!

While waiting for the next copy to be ready, enjoy other history titles in our MCPL catalog. Copies of the book are currently available for pick up at the circulation desk.  Learn more by visiting this link to our MCPL catalog.

Questions about this program? Contact Chevy Chase Library at: 240-773-9590

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