Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

De: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrado por: Malcolm Gladwell

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.

©2024 Malcolm Gladwell (P)2024 Pushkin Industries

Fantastic storytelling

Malcolm Gladwell does, as always, an excellent job illuminating connections between seemingly unrelated events. His many years working in the audio medium brings his newest book to life, I didn’t want to stop listening until the book ended. 10/10 Highly recommend.
On the rate occurrence that the author reads this review, my hometown which is named twice in the final chapter he pronounced perfectly. Once like I do, and once like other locals do. ❤️

Excellent as usual

Fascinating insight into things we thought we understood. I still refer to the original book often even after 25 years. I’m sure this will be the same.

Brilliant storytelling…again!

Gladwell remains one of my all time favorite authors because of his uncanny ability to look at things in a different way. Yet another amazing read/listen!

Amazing! Great effects!

Loved all the special effects and background music. It’s an incredibly well-done audiobook with some interesting ideas (as always!) from Gladwell.

Gladwell scores again

If you have read or listen to Gladwell‘s books before, this is just another great book of his thinking, of his research, of his brilliance. It was hard to put down and anyone who listens or reads it. Will be both surprised and not surprised as it is with Gladwell’s books. Don’t hesitate to buy this. Well worth your time.

Great follow up to Tipping Point!

I loved this revisit of Tipping Point! The concept is so logical yet we need to hear Malcolm Gladwell’s comparative explanations of various scenarios and how the same logic applies. He lays out the book beautifully and makes for a very engaging read. Highly recommend!

Power of the Story

Listening to Malcolm is like sitting down with a good friend and walking through multiple stories / threads that end up being woven into a consolidated story - the story ends up being a reflective mirror.

Fascinating Information

I enjoyed each moment of this work. It was quite an interesting trail through seemingly dissimilar stories that wove together by the end of each chapter and the book as a whole.

Lots of things I didn’t know

As always with this author he has a great way of weaving facts and unknown stories (to me) to come to conclusions I might not have had until I read. Thank you

Amazing

Great book, the performance was amazing. Such an easy listen and such great content. He nails it again.