Book Review: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell (audio book)

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Malcolm Gladwell is a skillful storyteller. In Talking to Strangers, he threaded human psychology understanding such as 

• Truth by default theory: We human tend to take the best view of strangers by default
• Transparency theory: We human tend to take stranger at face value, if people act nice we tend to think them nice people, and if they act oddly we tend to think them odd and bad.
• Alcohol impacts human judgement
• Coupling: Bad things and bad place and bad time tend to couple together

into telling the stories of 

• Nazi German in World war II and misjudging of Hitler by Chamblain 
• Bernie Madoff
• Jerry Sandusky and Penn State story
• CIA and DIA mistakes in Cuba espionage
• Stanford University's sexual assault case
• Sandra Bland story

and smartly weaved these stories into the larger background of Black Live Matters, which makes the book relevant to the current time in addition of being informative and entertaining.