Sam Gwynne On Progress, War, And Zeppelins
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Sam Gwynne about his new book His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, the triumph of hope over experience, why progress is based in irrationality, the fascinating history of the zeppelin, and more.
Sam Gwynne is a writer, journalist, and historian. After earning a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton University and a master’s degree in writing from Johns Hopkins University, Sam worked for Time magazine as a correspondent, bureau chief, and senior editor. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, Harper's, Los Angeles Times, Outside Magazine, Dallas Morning News, California Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. He has written seven non-fiction books, including the New York Times Bestsellers Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell, the former of which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category. Sam’s work can be found on his website scgwynne.com and on Twitter @scgwynne.
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| 1:05.5 | Hey, it's Ryan Holland. I've welcomed to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. I've raved about |
| 1:12.2 | handful of books over the years that I have basically never heard |
| 1:17.1 | anything but overwhelmingly positive feedback about |
| 1:21.3 | And one of those books is the Empire of the Summer Moon one of the great narrative nonfiction books of all time |
| 1:28.5 | So millions of copies for reason and it's by a person |
| 1:33.3 | I like quite a bit Sam Gwynne we're actually in a writers group together here in Austin |
| 1:39.1 | Been a long time since I've been able to see him the group broke during the pandemic and then I've got busy with kids and writing and I haven't been |
| 1:47.2 | So I said |
| 1:49.4 | Hey, would you come out sign like a million copies of Empire of the Summer Moon do the podcast and I wanted to talk to him about his new book |
| 1:57.8 | Which I also tore through it's called his majesty's airship the life and tragic death |
| 2:03.4 | The world's largest flying machine tells a tragic story of a British rigid airship |
| 2:09.8 | Zeppelin basically that went down in a spectacular hydrogen fueled fireball in 1930 |
| 2:17.3 | bigger worse |
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