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    Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
    Audiobook8 hours

    Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

    Written by Malcolm Gladwell

    Narrated by Malcolm Gladwell

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    About this audiobook

    A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter-century after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light — this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, the listener, directly inside of each riveting story.
     
    Why is Miami… Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Malcolm Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
     
    Through a series of gripping stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering. As with his podcast Revisionist History and bestsellers Talking to Strangers and The Bomber Mafia, pressing play on this audiobook will bring each scene and story to life with vivid first-person accounts, captivating oral histories, illuminating moments from history past and present, and a cinematic original music score.
     
    Take to the streets of Los Angeles with Malcolm to meet the world’s most successful bank robbers, rediscover a forgotten television show from the 1970s that changed the world, visit the site of a historic experiment on a tiny cul-de-sac in northern California, and explore an alternate history of two of the biggest epidemics of our day: COVID and the opioid crisis. 

    Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell’s most personal book yet. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. It’s time we took tipping points seriously.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2024
    ISBN9781668643334
    Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

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    • 4/5
      Always a fan of Malcolm Gladwell, this book stands up with the others, but it’s not my favorite. He always has a way of telling simple and engaging stories that connect beautifully together. This book had compelling stories as always, but the connections weren’t as clear by the end of it. Really relevant stories for our world today, though — still worth the read!
    • 3/5
      Malcolm Gladwell’s “Revenge of the Tipping Point” is an odd follow-up to his first book, “The Tipping Point,” a bestseller that became a sensation twenty-five years ago. This time, instead of presenting a coherent update on the origin and nature of epidemics, the author peppers us with anecdotes, but fails to convincingly connect the dots between the stories he tells.

      Some of the questions that Gladwell raises are why opioid addiction became a crisis that has taken an enormous number of American lives; how an executive retreat led to a Covid crisis in Boston; what occurred in an elite school that led to a rash of teen suicides; and why administrators at Harvard decided to form a female rugby team.

      In "Revenge of the Tipping Point," we encounter such terms as overstories, the magic third, small area variation, and group proportions, but Gladwell does not persuasively explain how these and other concepts bring us from Point A to Point B. Therefore, we are left with a work of non-fiction that initially piques our curiosity, but does not fulfill its initial promise—to clarify how we can use social engineering to make our world healthier, happier, and more equitable.
    • 5/5
      nonfiction - sociology/science, downsides of the tipping point - spread of COVID, dangers of monoculture, why the opioid epidemic was infinitely worse in the southern states, crooked businesses in Miami, and more.

      I almost read this in one sitting--utterly fascinating, compelling, and at the same time horrifying/depressing (though I'm sure it will end on a hopeful note).