David and Goliath

Malcolm Gladwell has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1996. He is the author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw. Prior to joining The New Yorker, he was a reporter at the Washington Post. Gladwell was born in England and grew up in rural Ontario. He now lives in New York.

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.
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PART I: WHEN ADVANTAGES BECOME DISADVANTAGES
1. Too Much of a Good Thing, Part I: Money and Parenting
2. Too Much of a Good Thing, Part II: Small Class Sizes
3. Too Much of a Good Thing, Part III: Miscellaneous Excessiveness
4. Power and Authority Gone Awry
PART II: WHEN DISADVANTAGES BECOME ADVANTAGES: DESIRABLE DIFFICULTIES
5. The Plight of the Dyslexic
6. Successful Dyslexics
◾a. David Boies
◾b. Brain Grazer
7. Dyslexia and Risk-Taking
8. Severe Trauma: The Trauma of Losing a Parent in Childhood
◾a. Emil ‘Jay’ Freireich
PART III: UNDERDOG GROUPS: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UNCONVENTIONAL TACTICS AND APPROACHES
9. Underdog Armies (and a Digression into the Story of David and Goliath)
10. Underdog Sports Teams: The Redwood City Junior Girls Basketball Team
11. Conclusion