Revenge of the Tipping Point

Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

Narrated by: 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 Hachette Audio UK

Amazing insights on epidemics

The research was amazing and Malcolm Gladwell writes extremely well. The book flowed effortlessly from one topic into the next. Highly recommended

Humanity under Malcolm's mucroscope

For a long time teachers and authorities hushed on people in Kyiv during times of soviet occupation if one say that it was jews that are burried in Babiy Yar. Holocost was silenced here. Moreover, USSR was a very antisemitic country. But when Holocaust was said with capital H in the west and some poets wrote about this tragedy, soviets could not do anything against it and put a memorial stone in 1976. Baniy Yar was a garbage dump untill 1961 when pulp washed walls and spills over neighbouring strits killing hundreds of people. One tragedy which soviets tried to silence allowed to speak about another tragedy. Holocaust as a word came here in the end of 1980th. The history that Malcolm explained make me understand why it took so long here too. I know that some survivors did't want to speak about their experience.

Top Notch

The depth of research, and manner in which all the themes are tied in together makes for such an interesting, informative, and enjoyable experience.

Great read/listen

The style of this audioboot itself is a bit more interactive than I am used to, but once you get used to it, and the fact that there are real recordings and actor voiceovers, you get to enjoy an amazing book, filled with cases that are unique and take a curious investigator and a story collercotor/analizer like Malcolm Gladwell to bring to light.

Malcolm’s voice and the thread woven

Amazing and well written. It weaves different stories together to give modern American digest. Yes, there are learnings about different matters, but what separates this is Malcolm’s unique writing style.

In the end, it’s all about human endeavour is what I got out of it.

Combining lessons from Daniel Kahnaman’s Noise book (less entertaining but more insightful) and Malcolm’s extremely entertaining entry gave me pause.

Very disappointing

The book is essentially a lecture on how wonderful DEI is. While Gladwell’s reading and production are excellent, the content has become overly political and includes some logical fallacies.