A top-shelf book agent once offered me some sage advice ... This insight has been key to understanding Malcolm Gladwell’s ...

“It was written some time ago ... and imagining yourself back in the glamorous fifties.” Related: Malcolm Gladwell's New Book, Revenge of the Tipping Point Has a Cover: See It Here!

To answer that, he often tells the story of the Christian people of Le Chambon, a remote, mountainous region of France near the Italian and Swiss borders. This town, which had been home to dissident ...