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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 Gladwell challenges 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.
- Sales Rank: #14555 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Little, Brown and Company
- Published on: 2013-10-01
- Released on: 2013-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.75" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
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*Starred Review* Gladwell’s best-sellers, such as The Tipping Point (2000) and Outliers (2008), have changed the way we think about sociological changes and the factors that contribute to high levels of success. Here he examines and challenges our concepts of “advantage” and “disadvantage” in a way that may seem intuitive to some and surprising to others. Beginning with the classic tale of David and Goliath and moving through history with figures such as Lawrence of Arabia and Martin Luther King Jr., Gladwell shows how, time and again, players labeled “underdog” use that status to their advantage and prevail through the elements of cunning and surprise. He also shows how certain academic “advantages,” such as getting into an Ivy League school, have downsides, in that being a “big fish in a small pond” at a less prestigious school can lead to greater confidence and a better chance of success in later life. Gladwell even promotes the idea of a “desirable difficulty,” such as dyslexia, a learning disability that causes much frustration for reading students but, at the same time, may force them to develop better listening and creative problem-solving skills. As usual, Gladwell presents his research in a fresh and easy-to-understand context, and he may have coined the catchphrase of the decade, “Use what you got.” --David Siegfried
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"Truly intriguing and inspiring, especially when Gladwell discusses 'desirable difficulties'....Gladwell's account of the journey of Dr. Emil 'Jay' Freireich is unforgettable." ---Hector Tobar, Los Angeles Times
"Provocative....David and Goliath is a lean, consuming read....The book's most crafty, engaging chapter ties together the Impressionist movement and college choices to highlight the fact that gaining admission to elite institutions, which we typically perceive as an advantage, is no guarantee of success." ---John Wilwol, San Francisco Chronicle
"As always, Gladwell's sweep is breathtaking and thought-provoking....I've long admired Gladwell's work." ---Joe Nocera, New York Times
"David and Goliath readers will travel with colorful characters who overcame great difficulties and learn fascinating facts about the Battle of Britain, cancer medicine and the struggle for civil rights, to name just a few topics upon which Mr. Gladwell's wide-ranging narrative touches. This is an entertaining book." ---Christopher F. Chabris, Wall Street Journal
"Fascinating....Gladwell is a master of synthesis. This perennially bestselling author prides himself on radical re-thinking and urges the rest of us to follow suit." ---Heller McAlpin, Washington Post
"What propels the book, like all of Gladwell's writing, is his intoxicating brand of storytelling. He is the master of mixing familiar elements with surprise counter-intuitions, and then seasoning with a sprinkling of scientific evidence....Gladwell is a master craftsman, an outlier amongst authors." ---Rob Brooks, Huffington Post
"Gladwell sells books by the millions because he is masterful at explaining how the world works---the power of critical mass, the arbitrariness of success, etc.---packaging his ideas in fun, accessible, and poignant vignettes." ---Lionel Beehner, USA Today
"Gladwell's most provocative book yet. David and Goliath challenges how we think about obstacles and disadvantages, drawing upon history, psychology, and powerful narrative talent to rethink how we view the world around us and how to deal with the challenges life throws at us." ---Susanne Jaffe, Columbus Dispatch
"The bestselling author behind the inventive Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point is back with another thought provoking theory that fascinates, entertains, and informs. He gives underdogs their due this time, challenging everything readers believe about facing-and conquering-life's stumbling blocks, using the 'real' story of David and Goliath and more to make his point." ---Celeste Williams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"Gladwell has made a career out of questioning conventional wisdom, and here he examines the allegedly unlikely triumph of the weak over the mighty and shows it's not so unlikely after all. 4 stars." ---Judith Newman, People Magazine
"The 50-year-old Canadian is a superstar, the most popular staff writer on The New Yorker and a hero in the frequent-flier lounge where journalism, social science, business management, and self-help hang out....It's a good story and he's got plenty more." ---Jeff Baker, The Oregonian
"Pop culture pundit Malcolm Gladwell is an idea blender, mixing concepts from vastly different sources (everything from business to science to the Bible) to produce new ways of seeing the world." ---Barbara O'Dair, Reader's Digest
"Engrossing.... Gladwell's singular gift is animating the experience of his subjects. He has an uncanny ability to simplify without being simplistic: clean and vivid Strunk and White prose in the service of peerless storytelling." ---David Takami, Seattle Times
"Contemporary society can't escape history when Malcolm Gladwell explains the world as he does with David and Goliath."---Jane Henderson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell explores the dynamics that inform and effect our everyday lives. By analyzing the Biblical account of the clash between David and Goliath, Gladwell presents a bold new interpretation of the lessons we should apply from it." ---Today Show
About the Author
Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He now lives in New York.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
One Small Step for Gladwell, One Giant Leap for Superficial Analysis
By Michael I.
Malcolm Gladwell is the author most responsible for (guilty of?) popularizing the nonfiction genre we call behavioral science - the study of how forces outside our awareness influence our decisions big and small. Gladwell is motivated to prove commonly accepted notions about success are counterintuitive. Who succeeds and who fails, according to Gladwell, is largely a matter of chance and circumstance. In DAVID AND GOLIATH, the author widens (but not deepens) his exploration by examining Davids who rose to the status of Goliaths. It is Malcolm Gladwell's worst book.
Like Gladwell's previous work, the book is a collection of profiles connected thematically. Take a Hollywood producer whose childhood poverty spurred him to ambition, leading him to a fabulously wealthy lifestyle, a lifestyle the producer (and Gladwell) fear may be a detriment to his children since they won't have the same motivation. Or take a young, high-achieving high school student who aspired to study science as a career; she was accepted to Brown University, but quickly found herself demoralized because she was surrounded by fierce, moneyed competition - she never got to shine the way she would have at a lower tier school, so she left Brown and science behind.
It's a conclusion that is not only facile, it's a conclusion that is inaccurate on its face. Of course there are poor people who use their humble roots to launch themselves to great heights...but a rich kid is far more likely to have a fruitful, stable life than a poor kid. As for the big fish/small pond idea vis-à-vis Brown University, it is also nonsensical. If someone gets accepted to Brown and also the Duluth Community College, GO TO BROWN. Looking at it from a purely statistical angle, ten years after graduation, the profile of a Brown alum is vastly more desirable than a Duluth Community College alum.
Every single idea presented in this book fails under minimal scrutiny. It's not that they're purely false, it's that they're misguided or selectively presented.
An extra star is awarded due to the fluency of Gladwell's writing. It's mysterious how he's able to propel his prose forward so smoothly while inundating the reader with facts and abstract concepts. He's truly a talent, but he's a well-intentioned utopianist who bends his findings to conform to his yearning for how the world should work.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
The Slipping Point
By Jim Muccio
David and Goliath, the Tortoise and the Hair, The Little Engine that Could... these are the stories we grew up with that spoke to us about overcoming the odds. As if somehow learning as a child that overcoming the odds was not only possible it was a good thing. When you're a kid with nothing to lose you might dream big…”This only goes to show what little people can do” to quote from the Musical Les Miserables. As we grew older we understood more deeply just how impossible overcoming the odds can be. To truly overcome the odds the reality of the “Kobayashi Maru Scenario” sets in. From Star Trek the Kobyashi Maru Scenario is the no-win scenario that cadets going through Starfleet Academy must face. Only one cadet ever won the Kobayashi Maru Scenario. That’s would be Captain James T. Kirk. How did he win? He cheated.
OK, for the most part, these “David and Goliath” tales of youth are fictional. Enter Malcolm Gladwell and his his forth is a series of winning titles starting with “The Tipping Point”, “Blink”, and then “Outliers”. Now Mr. Gladwell brings us “David and Goliath -- Underdogs, Misfits, and the art of Battling Giants”. He’s not coining a new phrase as he did with his other books. We all know the story of David and Goliath and we all know it’s about doing something that ought not be possible. Except instead of fiction, Mr. Gladwell brings us a series of real life accounts of underdogs prevailing against the mountain of odds stacked against them. These are real life David and Goliath stories as only Mr. Gladwell can tell them... deep, compelling, and poignant...his trademark. How did these underdogs prevail? In some sense they cheated. As Capt Kirk would say, “He changed the rules”. In all cases it’s about seeking advantage from the strengths you have, versus trying to capitalize on the traditional strengths that you will never have. And no matter how hard you wish for it, the odds will forever, not be in your favor. If you're a Hunger Games fan. So changing the rules of the game is always necessary. Only after the fact can one judge whether the ends justified the means…and that’s a very slippery ethical slope indeed. Mr. Gladwell stays away from the ethics of it all.
These real life “David and Goliath” stories stand well on their own, overcoming dyslexia, winning with a full court press in basketball, defeating childhood leukemia, prevailing in the race struggle in Birmingham Alabama, and outwitting the Nazi’s in Vichy France. And Mr. Gladwell brings them to us with epic and sometimes heart wrenching prose...tears were streaming down my face at least twice. He brings to us a different perspective on what’s necessary to win...and if an underdog does win, look closely, there’s always something else going on, and then sometimes...winning big might mean ultimately losing. This is where his attempt to bring too many stories together...with a single logical thread...seems to break down. Is he trying to say if you're an underdog you should cheat? Is he trying to say, maybe, we shouldn't win at all? That’s harder to tease out. The main premise however is that if you've grown up an underdog you have a hidden strength you can exploit...just because you've survived the adversity that makes you an underdog you must have some strength in you. And this is definitely an inspiring moment. Sadly, many more underdogs don’t survive to be those underdogs...and those huge overwhelming numbers don’t show up in the text. We only hear about the underdogs that win. David was the big winner and he rose to become a King. We don’t hear about the David’s that lost...and I can assure you there are many more of those loser Davids out there...countless loser Davids.
So in the end, Mr. Gladwell gives us something interesting to read, stories to tell, and true to his journalistic form, an extremely well written book. But he hasn’t given us the same game changing insights he brought forth in his earlier three works. This is only a must read for his fans, so I can’t give it five stars. And it is no where near the same book that is “The Tipping Point”, “Blink”, or “Outliers” so I will deduct another star. Three stars for “David and Goliath”, Mr. Gladwell may have reached a “Slipping Point” of his own. I hope he can recover.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Some Interesting Stories, but Not Quintessential Gladwell
By John C.
I generally enjoy Malcolm Gladwell's writing, and have read his other books. I've also heard him speak, watched his TED talk on "David and Goliath," and read recent interviews he's given about the book. I say all that, to make it clear that I'm a Gladwell fan, and wanted to love this book. Sadly, it's not a great read.
The title story is interesting, but I think the author would like for readers to be surprised by David's skill and ability. Most of what he writes about David will be pretty familiar to Christians who have been actively studied the Bible. Certainly nothing he said about David and/or Goliath was controversial, and most of it could be gleaned from the notes in a good Study Bible.
The stories that follow in the first section, and even the second section, are also interesting. It's thought-provoking to consider that a perceived disadvantage might spur a person on to do exceptional things. As the book continues on, the stories are less exceptional, and the premise less exciting.
For me, the book failed on three counts:
1. The stories used to illustrate Gladwell's point failed to consider the negative side. Yes, a percentage of people when faced with adversity overcome it, however, an overwhelming majority suffer greatly. For every successful businessperson with a learning disability, there are several more who are in menial jobs. The same is true of most of all the other examples in the book.
2. The examples given in the third section of the book were simply not compelling. Maybe an interesting newspaper or magazine article, but not compelling on a "Gladwell-ian" scale.
3. The author failed to connect the examples given into an obvious conclusion, and no effort was given to purport one for the reader. Maybe the weakness of the last section was the cause of this, but after I put the book down, my only thought was, "so what?"
Gladwell is still a fine story-teller, and I think he was on to something good here. It just didn't come together like it might have. If you're considering this book because you've heard about Malcolm Gladwell and this is his newest offering, I'd suggest reading Outliers or Tipping Point instead.
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