Host malcolm gladwell, book number six out this week talking to strangers. What is the premise of this book, your latest book . Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary high profile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail, Bernie Madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra brand case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conve
Susan malcolm gladwell, book number six out this week, talking to strangers. What is the premise of this book, your latest book . Malcolm the premise of this latest book is that were not very good at talking to strangers. I was struck by how many of the kind of contemporary highprofile controversies that we find ourselves in come down to the same problem, that two people who didnt know each other very well attempt to communicate and fail or attempt to understand each other and fail. Bernie madoff, people had conversations with Bernie Madoff and never understood who he was. The Jerry Sandusky case at penn state. Brock turner Sexual Assault case at stanford a few years back, these are failed communications. And the one that really, the book starts and ends with, the signature case im concerned with is the sandra brand case, which is one of those high profile encounters between African Americans and Law Enforcement that was, excuse me, so much in the news a few years ago, which was a conv
Shows but honestly a former independent bookseller. [applause] but i could not hack in the tough independent world so i joined the confines of forprofit corporations where things seem easier now i can oversee shows like this and talk to all of you. But i will not delay the amazing lineup of authors we have coming up. I just wanted to take a moment to tell a story and acknowledge a friend that many if not all of us have in common. Talking my way to get a job into running and independent bookstore in my hometown st. Paul i didnt know anything about independent bookselling unlike the other luminaries i knew woebegone but shortly after i took this job i got a call in the famous person in the book world into call me to meet the nondescript meeting at a hotel in january in minnesota. [laughter] so this chilly introduction was how i first got engaged with the American Booksellers Association and in that room were people that soon became my luminaries ken white before he was famous himself i a
I feel like a School Headmaster please take your seats. We oversee book expo and other shows but honestly a former independent bookseller. [applause] but i could not hack in the tough independent world so i joined the confines of forprofit corporations where things seem easier now i can oversee shows like this and talk to all of you. But i will not delay the amazing lineup of authors we have coming up. I just wanted to take a moment to tell a story and acknowledge a friend that many if not all of us have in common. Talking my way to get a job into running and independent bookstore in my hometown st. Paul i didnt know anything about independent bookselling unlike the other luminaries i knew woebegone but shortly after i took this job i got a call in the famous person in the book world into call me to meet the nondescript meeting at a hotel in january in minnesota. [laughter] so this chilly introduction was how i first got engaged with the American Booksellers Association and in that roo
Somebody. By somebody. He was the first da to investigate Jerry Sandusky, could there be a link between that case and his disappearance . Where is this man . Somebody knows something or a lot of somebodys do. Hello and welcome to dateline. Ray gricar was a District Attorney and bellefont, pennsylvania. Not far from Penn State University. He was the first to investigate allegations against Jerry Sandusky who abused the child. That was long before the scandal made headlines. But several years later, ray gricar mysteriously disappeared. The strange turn of events left people asking, was there a connection . Here is lester holt with the case of The Missing Da. The clues are tantalizing, as sporty red car, a speck of cigarette ash. A battered hard drive. It is a mystery, it absolutely is a mystery. But what do these clues say about the sudden disappearance of a District Attorney who left them behind . It is baffling, it is confusing and perplexing it is all of those things. His name is ray