The Sudden Celebrity of Sir John Knight from Revisionist History
Against the Rules with Michael Lewis
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the battles over gun rights, a shadowy English nobleman from the 17th century has unexpectedly taken center stage. Who was he? What did he do that has — 300 years later — endeared him to a generation of legal scholars? Revisionist History explores the cult of personality around the mysterious Sir John Knight. Enjoy this episode from Revisionist History, another Pushkin Industries podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there against the rules, listeners, it's Michael Lewis here. You might have heard |
| 0:16.7 | that I've been working on a new book about the crypto exchange FTX and its founder, Sam |
| 0:21.6 | Bankman Freed, and I'm still working on it, talking to experts on background here in |
| 0:27.1 | this feed, but I'm finally able to tell you just a bit more about the book itself, like |
| 0:31.9 | the title, for instance, and when it will be published. So here we go. My next book is |
| 0:39.4 | going to be called Going Infinite, The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon. It's coming out |
| 0:46.7 | October 3rd. And rather than tell you what's in it, because I think a lot of the pleasures |
| 0:52.8 | going to come from you not knowing what's in it, how about I just read you a little jacket |
| 0:56.6 | copy? And I quote, Michael Lewis takes you along on a quest to understand who Sam Bankman |
| 1:02.6 | Freed really is, what motivated him and what his spectacular rise and fall means for |
| 1:07.6 | the rest of us. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks whose eyes |
| 1:12.6 | twitched across zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? Right on the roller |
| 1:17.6 | coaster with me as I trace the ups and downs of a character who never liked the rules |
| 1:22.0 | and was allowed to live by his own until it all came undone. I didn't write those words, |
| 1:27.4 | but I think they sound okay. I'd read that book if I weren't still writing it. Going |
| 1:33.0 | infinite, The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon will be available October 3rd, 2023. In |
| 1:40.3 | fact, you could pre-order it now from your favorite bookstore. Look forward to your response. |
| 1:46.2 | Hello, hello, hello, listeners. Malcolm Gladwell here. Before this episode starts, I wanted |
| 1:54.3 | to let you know that there is a month of new content coming from Pushkin that you can |
| 1:59.3 | hear early and at free. Our team has exciting new shows and podcasts like a new series from |
| 2:06.8 | my podcast revisionist history, Paul McCartney's brand new podcast McCartney, a life in lyrics, |
| 2:12.9 | new and exclusive content from The Happiness Lab by Dr. Louis Santos and a brand new season |
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