On this episode of Nutsworld, my guest today 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 podcast's 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.

He's here to talk about his new book, The Bomber Mafia,

A Dream, A Temptation, and the longest night of the Second World War.

Music Malcolm Gladwell is one of those people who just has captured the American spirit.

As a minor author by his standards, I look on his work as just a remarkable achievement.

I'm amazed at the tipping point,

how little things can make a big difference back in the year 2000, which really became an amazingly talked about book that I think really gave a lot of people some new insights. And

then he came back with Blink, the power of thinking without thinking in 2005, which again permeated

the culture.

Then he wrote Outliers, the story of success in 2008, and then what the dog saw and other

adventures in 2009.

And finally, David and Goliath, underdogs, misisfits and the Art of Battling Giants in 2013.

And now he's back with a really interesting book on the bomber mafia, a dream, a temptation,

and the longest night of the Second World War.

And I've had a long interest personally as a historian in World War II and in the bomber mafia

and the gap between what they believed was possible and what was possible.

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