Revenge of the Tipping Point

A lot has changed in 25 years. A quarter century after the publication of his first revolutionary book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a new volume that recasts the teachings of The Tipping Point in a surprising and revealing light - this time in an immersive audio format that transports you, you. . listener, directly into the heart of each fascinating story.

Why Miami... Miami? What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah teach us about how to 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 theme of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of exploring the dark side of contagious phenomena.

Through a series of compelling stories, Gladwell traces the rise of a disturbing new form of social engineering. As with his podcast Revisionist History and his best-selling books Taking to Strangers and The Bomber Mafia, pressing play on this audiobook will bring each scene and story to life with vivid narration in its own right, engaging oral history, illuminating moments from past and present history, and a cinematic soundtrack.

Walk the streets of Los Angeles with Malcolm to meet the world's most successful bank robbers, rediscover a forgotten 1970s television show that changed the world, visit the site of a historic experiment in a small Northern California street market, and explore an alternative history of two of the biggest epidemics of our time: COVID and the opioid crisis. Revenge of the Tipping Point is Gladwell's most personal book to date. With his signature blend of storytelling and social science, he offers a guide to understanding the infectious diseases of the modern world. It's time to take the turning points seriously.