Morristown Festival of Books Keynote Event – An Evening with Malcolm Gladwell

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Malcolm Gladwell, author of multiple New York Times bestsellers, including Outliers and The Tipping Point, and host of the podcast Revisionist History, will visit Morristown just days after the publication of his highly anticipated new book. Join us for an in-depth conversation about The American Way of Killing, which gets to the heart of America’s gun violence crisis in Gladwell’s inimitable way: through a series of riveting stories. Join us for this timely and vital discussion with one of the great thinkers of our time.

Malcolm Gladwell returns with his most urgent book yet: a provocative investigation of America’s epidemic of gun violence.

The United States has far more homicides than any of its peers around the world. Why?

In this groundbreaking book, Malcolm Gladwell explores the American “peculiarity”—how the world’s wealthiest country came to suffer from a problem typically only seen in the world’s poorest countries.

Drawing on original interviews, archival and social science research, and his trademark insight, Gladwell approaches the American paradox through a series of stories. What can we learn from the miracle of a young gunshot victim in Washington, D.C.? How have the legal troubles of a seventeenth-century English knight influenced American attempts at gun control? Why would a European police chief be baffled by the graduation ceremony at any American police academy?

In a sweeping narrative, Gladwell travels from a shooting range in North Carolina, to the South Side of Chicago, to an old plantation house in Alabama, painting a picture of a country that does not understand its most pressing social problem, and as result, does not understand how to fix it.

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of eight New York Times bestsellers: The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, David and Goliath, Talking to Strangers, The Bomber Mafia, and Revenge of the Tipping Point. He is also the cofounder of Pushkin Industries, an audio-content company that produces Revisionist History, among other podcasts and audiobooks. He was born in England, raised in Canada, and lives outside New York with his family and a cat named Biggie Smalls.

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General Admission Ticket: $68, includes a copy of The American Way of Killing

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Special instructions: General Admission Ticket: $68, includes a copy of The American Way of Killing Our Keynote Fundraiser Event helps underwrite the remarkable free offerings of our all-day Saturday Festival, which features the opportunity to interact with scores of authors.

Admission: $68

Original source: Mayo Performing Arts Center