Writing in Esquire, Tom Junod echoed Nocera's conclusion his review bore the title 'Malcolm Gladwell Runs Out of Tricks'. Joe Nocera called the book 'deeply repetitive and a bewildering sprawl,' suggesting that 'aybe what 'David and Goliath' really illustrates is that it’s time for Malcolm Gladwell to find a new shtick.' Gladwell's science is convenient', and she concludes that 'the book's middle section is its messiest', where the author attempts to link the experiences of famous dyslexics such as Brian Grazer and David Boies.

The book was unfavorably reviewed twice in The New York Times. were able to make the Birmingham riot of 1963 a historically significant event in the civil rights movement using Brer Rabbit-like tactics Rosemary Lawlor and how the Northern Irish police's reaction to religious riots in Belfast in 1969 led to a 30-year conflict called The Troubles, and contrasting this to how a police officer in New York City created a program that connected with troubled youths and their families how Mike Reynolds' reaction to a family member being murdered led to the California Three-strikes law and how Wilma Derksen's reaction led to a completely different result and André Trocmé, a pastor in a small town in the French mountains Le Chambon-sur-Lignon that stood up to the Nazi regime and harbored Jewish refugees.Ĭritical response to David and Goliath was largely negative. Other examples include: Vivek Ranadive, and a middle school girls' basketball team in Redwood City Teresa DeBrito, and the impact of class size regulations Caroline Sacks, and choosing between going to a top-tier college or a second-tier college David Boies and how he still has a great career despite having or perhaps because of his dyslexia or a desirable difficulty Jay Frederich and his cancer research, London bombings in World War II, and the effect of 'remote misses' on the city's morale and a person's courage activist Wyatt Walker and how he and Martin Luther King Jr. These anecdotal lessons are anchored by references to research in the social sciences. In one arc, Gladwell cites various seeming afflictions that may in fact have significantly contributed to success, linking dyslexia with the high-flying career of lawyer David Boies, and the loss of a parent at an early age with the exceptional research work of oncologist Emil 'Jay' Freireich. Summary ĭavid and Goliath employs individual case studies and comparison to provide a wide range of examples where perceived major disadvantages in fact turn out to be the keys to the underdog Davids' triumph against Goliath-like opponents or situations.

The book is partially inspired by an article Gladwell wrote for The New Yorker in 2009 entitled 'How David Beats Goliath'.

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