A review by babbsb
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell

3.0

These books filled with anecdotes seem to be incredibly common. I think they're interesting to see David and Goliath examples, I have a hard time seeing their link. It seems like many of these situations are outliers or need special circumstances to succeed. I understand that's the point but these stories just don't add up for me. I never got the point of the Irish/IRA story and how their underdog nature allowed them to be successful but maybe I misheard that part. Either way, the people being flaunted had clear flaws that made them special cases. The detail gone into doesn't do justice to each individual story. There wasn't enough to get into the severity and implications of the situations that I would've preferred.