**Audie Award Winner, Nonfiction, 2014
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling
examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping
our lives.
**Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a
shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and
a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood
for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable
and miraculous. He shouldn't have won.
Or should he have?
In David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwellchallenges how we think about
obstacles and disadvantages, offering a new interpretation of what it
means to be discriminated against, or cope with a disability, or lose a
parent, or attend a mediocre school, or suffer from any number of other
apparent setbacks.
Gladwell begins with the real story of what happened between the giant
and the shepherd boy those many years ago. From there, David and
Goliath examines Northern Ireland's Troubles, the minds of cancer
researchers and civil rights leaders, murder and the high costs of
revenge, and the dynamics of successful and unsuccessful
classrooms---all to demonstrate how much of what is beautiful and
important in the world arises from what looks like suffering and
adversity.
In the tradition of Gladwell's previous bestsellers---The Tipping
Point, Blink, Outliers and What the Dog Saw---David and Goliath
draws upon history, psychology, and powerful storytelling to reshape the
way we think of the world around us.
