October 14, 2024
(Tickets on sale September 17)
Malcolm Gladwell’s first book, The Tipping Point, changed the way we think and talk about the dissemination of ideas. Twenty-five years after its publication—and many New York Times-bestselling books later—Gladwell reframes the lessons of his groundbreaking debut for our confounding new era, in Revenge of the Tipping Point.
What does the heartbreaking fate of the cheetah tell us about the way we raise our children? Why do Ivy League schools care so much about sports? What is the Magic Third, and what does it mean for racial harmony? In this provocative new work, Gladwell returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena.
Gladwell is one of our most influential thinkers, and a “rock-star intellectual.” (The Guardian) He shares his unique perspective in conversation with CBC’s The National host Ian Hanomansing. Books will be available for purchase before and after the event, courtesy of Book Warehouse.
Tickets starting at $40.
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MALCOLM GLADWELL is the author of seven New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. He is also the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audio content company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History, which reconsiders things both overlooked and misunderstood, and Broken Record, where he, Rick Rubin, and Bruce Headlam interview musicians across a wide range of genres. Gladwell has been included in the Time 100 Most Influential People list and touted as one of Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers.
IAN HANOMANSING hosts CBC News' flagship program THE NATIONAL from Vancouver on Fridays and Sundays, and is also the host of CROSS COUNTRY CHECKUP on CBC Radio and CBC News Network. Born in Trinidad and raised in Sackville, New Brunswick, his major assignments have included the Exxon Valdez oil spill and San Francisco earthquake (both in 1989), the Los Angeles riot (1992), Vancouver's two Stanley Cup riots (1994 and 2011), the Hong Kong handover (1997) the Slave Lake Alberta wildfire (2011), the Humboldt bus crash (2018) and seven Olympic Games. His work has won a Canadian Journalism Award, Canadian Screen Award, Justicia Award from the Canadian Bar Association for Excellence in Legal Journalism, the 2008 Gemini for Best News Anchor, and the 2016 Canadian Screen Award for Best National News Anchor.
