Episode 253: Malcolm Gladwell on The Bomber Mafia
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Newt’s guest is the remarkably talented writer, Malcolm Gladwell. He is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including Talking to Strangers, David and Goliath, Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point. He is the co-founder and president of Pushkin Industries, an audiobook and podcast production company that produces the podcasts Revisionist History; Broken Record, a music interview show; and Solvable, in which Gladwell interviews innovative thinkers with solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. His new book The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War is available now.
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| 0:00.0 | On this episode of Neuts World, my guest today is the remarkably talented writer, Malcolm |
| 0:10.8 | Gladwell. |
| 0:11.8 | He is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including Talking Distrangers, David and |
| 0:17.5 | Goliath, Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point. |
| 0:22.0 | He is the co-founder and president of Pushkin Industries, an audiobook and podcast production |
| 0:26.8 | company that produces the podcast revisionist history, broken record, a music interview show, |
| 0:33.8 | and solvable in which Gladwell interviews innovative thinkers with solutions to some |
| 0:38.9 | of the world's biggest problems. |
| 0:41.1 | He's here to talk about his new book, The Bomber Mafia, A Dream, Attemptation, and |
| 0:47.4 | The Longest Night of the Second World War. |
| 0:59.3 | Malcolm Gladwell is one of those people who just has captured the American spirit as a minor |
| 1:05.9 | author by his standards. |
| 1:07.8 | I look on his work as just a remarkable achievement. |
| 1:11.4 | I'm amazed at the tipping point. |
| 1:13.5 | Now little things can make a big difference back in the year 2000, which really became |
| 1:18.2 | an amazingly talked about book that I think really gave a lot of people some new insights. |
| 1:23.2 | Then he came back with Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking in 2005, which again |
| 1:29.8 | permeated the culture. |
| 1:32.2 | Then he wrote Outliers, The Story of Success in 2008, and then What the Dog Saw and Other |
| 1:37.8 | Adventures in 2009, and finally David and Goliath, Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling |
| 1:44.3 | Giants in 2013. |
| 1:47.4 | Now he's back with a really interesting book on The Bomber Mafia, A Dream, Attemptation, |
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