Amanpour: Malcolm Gladwell, Nick Broomfield and David McCullough

Amanpour

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4.1 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the "Revisionist History" podcast and one of the leading thinkers in the world today, joins Christiane Amanpour to talk inequality in education and the fallibility of memory. Nick Broomfield, director of "Marianne & Leonard", opens up about his film-making and the complicated relationship between acclaimed singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his muse Marianne Ihlen. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with David McCullough, the historian and author, to discuss his new book "The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West".To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:07.0	The intellectual extraordinaire whose books have sold in the millions, public thinker Malcolm Gladwell
0:15.5	on his ideas, and the need to challenge our own.
0:19.8	Then...
0:20.8	So long, Mary. I'm so long married.
0:25.0	It's one of Leonard Cohen's most iconic songs, but who was Marianne?
0:30.0	Award-winning filmmaker Nick Broomfield explores the troubled relationship between the musician and his muse.
0:37.0	Plus, the Midwestern pioneers who helped shape the ideals of the nation.
0:42.0	Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough who helped shape the ideals of the nation.
0:42.6	Pulets a prize-winning historian David McCullough talks to our Walter Isaacson. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Wampur in London. The
1:04.8	2020 presidential race is officially in full swing with Democrats in back-to-back
1:10.1	TV debates for the very first time. So far they have focused less on insulting
1:14.9	each other and more on actually answering tough questions about how they plan to
1:20.0	reform things like criminal justice and education.
1:23.6	That is right in the wheelhouse of my first guest tonight,
1:26.7	Malcolm Gladwell, who's been called
1:28.8	one of the leading thinkers of our time.
1:31.4	His books are bestsellers, and they tackle the big ticket issues facing us all.
1:35.6	It was Gladwell's book The Tipping Point about how small ideas can lead to big shifts in
1:41.7	human behavior that first propelled him into the public eye back in 2000.
1:47.0	Now he's turning his attention to what he calls the underreported and misunderstood events that shape our societies in his popular
1:55.1	podcast Revisionist history, which has just started its fourth season.
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