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First Published:
Jan 2005, 288 pages
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Apr 2007, 320 pages
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Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer
with The New Yorker magazine
since 1996. He is the author of two
books,
The Tipping Point: How Little Things
Make a Big Difference, (2000) and
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking (2005).
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.
Did you know?
Gladwell got
interested in the thinking process
behind snap decisions after he (an
African American) was stopped by police
as a potential rape suspect, even though
he was too old, too short and too thin
to fit the description. All he had in
common with the suspect was dark skin
and long curly hair and the officer's
snap judgment that he was the guilty party.
Useful link: The excerpt of
Blink at BookBrowse contains all 30
pages of Chapter 1. If you want to read
even more but don't want to splash out
on the book, visit
Gladwell's website for three more
short but interesting excerpts from
later in the book.
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