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nicki_j 's review for:
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
by Malcolm Gladwell
This book had some compelling stories to support its central premises: underdogs win because they have a strength that the powerful overlook and underestimate (which is pretty obvious when you type it out like that) and weaknesses can create strengths in other areas (and vice versa). The success of David Boies (and other successful men) despite/because of his dyslexia was convincing. But the children's cancer doctor's loveless childhood and his subsequent career? Not as strong of a connection. And I am not even sure where Gladwell was going with the discussion of the Three Strikes rule. I got the impression that he just didn't like the law and was happy to prove why it didn't work. Not only does not that fit the rest of the book, was it really necessary to criticize the parents of murdered children? surely there are other examples that could have been used..