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David and Goliath
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs
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Publisher's Summary
David and Goliath is the dazzling and provocative new book from Malcolm Gladwell, best-selling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw.
Why do underdogs succeed so much more than we expect? How do the weak outsmart the strong? In David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell takes us on a scintillating and surprising journey through the hidden dynamics that shape the balance of power between the small and the mighty. From the conflicts in Northern Ireland and Vietnam, through the tactics of civil rights leaders and the problem of privilege, Gladwell demonstrates how we misunderstand the true meaning of advantage and disadvantage.
When does a traumatic childhood work in someone's favour? How can a disability leave someone better off? And do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? David and Goliath draws on the stories of remarkable underdogs, history, science, psychology and on Malcolm Gladwell's unparalleled ability to make the connections others miss. It's a brilliant, illuminating book that overturns conventional thinking about power and advantage.
Author, journalist, cultural commentator, and intellectual adventurer, Malcolm Gladwell was born in 1963 in England to a Jamaican mother and an English mathematician father. He grew up in Canada and graduated with a degree in history from the University of Toronto in 1984. From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter for The Washington Post, first as a science writer and then as New York City bureau chief. Since 1996, he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.
His curiosity and breadth of interests are shown in New Yorker articles ranging over a wide array of subjects including early childhood development and the flu, not to mention hair dye, shopping and what it takes to be cool. His first book, The Tipping Point, captured the world's attention with its theory that a curiously small change can have unforeseen effects, and the phrase has become part of our language, used by writers, politicians and business people everywhere to describe cultural trends and strange phenomena. His other international best-selling books are Blink, which explores how a snap judgment can be far more effective than a cautious decision, and What the Dog Saw, a collection of his most provocative and entertaining New Yorker pieces.
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- M
- 14-06-20
Malcolm Gladwell shakes your notions
And you emerge wiser and more compassionate about life and humans on either side of any divide! A book for the times we live in
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- Nithesh
- 12-04-20
Worth listening
The reading and the writing was engaging. As always, case studies picked by Gladwell were relevant and interesting.
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- ReKa
- 18-10-20
Amazing book
loved it, for it's relevance and relation to phenomenon in history. loved it also for the engaging narration
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- Amazon Customer
- 25-02-20
Oh this is important...
Please buy this book and listen to it as soon as possible. I listened it 3 times ... I got it as a first book. After 3 consecutive complete listenings, I grasped all that was being said. will go back to it soon.
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- Abhi
- 18-01-21
Gladwell done well
Again a informative book from the Malcolm. Deeply researched and presented. End could have been better and more effective.
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- Vishal
- 25-10-20
start is good. middle is boring. end's more boring
started good. but as story went by the trivial detail get boring. still give you a lesson and confidence.
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- Srijoy Kanjilal
- 12-10-23
Fantastic premise.. but seems to lose the plot
Fantastic premise.. but it seems to lose the plot towards the end.
Most MG books work the same way.. he comes up with either a fact or a notion and goes about dissecting it to reveal underlying aspects of it previously unseen or unknown.
This was no different, but around the 6th and the 7th chapters.. one could see him diverging further and further off centre to make the point and one started to get the feeling that he won't be able to reel it in adequately.
Sadly, one got it right
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- Brijesh D.
- 27-03-19
worth your time to read it
the best part of this audio book was that the author himself was the narrator and so he could read with the emotions required. few chapters were long and boring but overall good stories.
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- Arjun
- 20-05-19
prolific work that can be potentially life changin
loved it from start to finish. after Outliers, this book again came as an eye opener. Gladwell thinks like no other. excellently written, amazingly researched work.
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- Rubina
- 22-03-20
excellent
Loved it
great interpretation and powerful narration of the story
the piece brings this old story alive
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