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Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Book reviews: Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

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Why do certain people succeed? Why do some rise above others? What makes them, in effect, outliers, unique and distant from the masses? These are the questions Malcolm Gladwell hopes to answer in his new book "Outliers: The Story of Success." Gladwell, the erudite New Yorker staff writer, has become familiar to many. His first two books, "Tipping Point" and "Blink" have sold nearly five million copies. They eloquently address complex pop-psychology topics establishing their creator as a writer of first-class talent, with considerable ability to distill research. By this criteria, "Outliers...

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