Malcolm Gladwell

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Malcolm Gladwell has sold millions of books and more recently become a podcasting titan and he joins Dan to talk about his most recent project The Bomber Mafia. The Bomber Mafia is about a group of military officers who came up with and transformed the concept of strategic bombing during the Second World War and after. In this episode, Dan and Malcolm talk about one of the leading proponents of airpower General Curtis LeMay who implemented a devastating bombing campaign against Japan during the Second World War. They also discuss what subjects which inspire Malcolm's curiosity and his love of audio storytelling.

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0:35.2	Hi everybody.
0:38.3	I've got fellow podcast and Malcolm Gladwell on the podcast now.
0:41.5	I mean, I say fellow podcaster.
0:42.8	I mean podcasting Titan Malcolm Gladwell on the podcast.
0:47.1	He very sensibly shows to be born in Hampshire, where I live in England.
0:53.3	He then equally sensibly shows throughout much of his childhood to live in Ontario, where
0:58.5	my mother is from, and where I also spend much of my childhood.
1:02.0	Sadly, that's where the similarities end.
1:04.6	He went on to write books that have sold tens of millions of copies and entertained and
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