An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell

You loved The Tipping Point and Outliers?  So did I!  Well, Gladwell will be in Los Angeles to talk about his new book, David and Goliath.  

Wanna go?

Take a look (or go to the LiveTalks page here):

Monday, October 7, 20138:00pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)

An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell
in conversation with Peter GuberDavid and Goliath:
Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants

Wilshire Boulevard Temple
3663 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90010

PURCHASE TICKETS 
$20 General Admission
$40 General Admission + Gladwell’s book (David and Goliath)
$55.00 reserved seating + Gladwell’s book (David and Goliath)
$105.00 Pre-event reception, premium seats + 2 books (David vs. Goliath & Outliers)

Join us in our newest venue, the recently renovated Wilshire Boulevard Temple.  Read about their renovation in the New York Times. And you can see images of  gorgeous space here.

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 1996. He is the bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. In 2005, he was named one of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People.  From 1987 to 1996, he was a reporter with the Washington Post, where he covered business, science, and then served as the newspaper’s New York City bureau chief. He graduated from the University of Toronto, Trinity College, with a degree in history. He was born in England, grew up in rural Ontario, and now lives in New York City.

We all know that underdogs can win–that’s what the David versus Goliath legend tells us, and we’ve seen it with our own eyes. Or have we? In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell, with his unparalleled ability to grasp connections others miss, uncovers the hidden rules that shape the balance between the weak and the mighty, the powerful and the dispossessed. Gladwell examines the battlefields of Northern Ireland and Vietnam, takes us into the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, and digs into the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful classrooms–all in an attempt to demonstrate how fundamentally we misunderstand the true meaning of advantages and disadvantages. When is a traumatic childhood a good thing? When does a disability leave someone better off? Do you really want your child to go to the best school he or she can get into? Why are the childhoods of people at the top of one profession after another marked by deprivation and struggle?

Drawing upon psychology, history, science, business, and politics, David and Goliath is a beautifully written book about the mighty leverage of the unconventional. Millions of readers have been waiting for the next Malcolm Gladwell book. That wait is over.