Malcolm gladwell has written a new book about the mistakes we make in our interactions with people we don't know. Talking to strangers features con artists and sociopats and spies. It talks about how drinking affects the way we make sense of others. i try to get to the bottom of a heart breaking encounter between a police officer and a civilian, which resulted in the death of a young woman named sandra bland in texas. I wanted to make this audio book of talking to strangers as compelling as an episode of revisionist history. So if you listen to the audio book, you'll hear the voices of the people i interview. And if i'm describing some historical event, you'll
On February 24, 1996, Cuban fighter jets shot down two small planes operated by Brothers to the Rescue, an organization in Florida that tried to spot refugees fleeing Cuba in boats. A strange chain of events preceded the shoot-down, and people in the intelligence business turned to a rising star in the Defense Intelligence Agency, Ana Montes. Montes was known around Washington as the “Queen of Cuba” for her insights into the Castro regime. But what Montes’ colleagues eventually found out about her shook their sense of trust to the core. (In this excerpt from Malcolm Gladwell’s forthcoming audiobook Talking to Strangers, we hear why spy mysteries do not unfold in real life like they do in the movies.)
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