Revisionist History

I wrote about this infamous bombing campaign in my audio book, The Bomber Mafia.

If you target towns and cities, it's as clear as day that there will be civilian victims. In 1945, the US firebombed Tokyo, destroying a quarter of the city and killing more than 100,000 people. I wrote about this infamous bombing campaign in my audiobook, The Bomber Mafia.

Don't forget my latest book, The Bomber Mafia, which is an expansion of several episodes from the last season of Revisionist History.

Don't forget my latest book, The Bomber Mafia, which is an expansion of several episodes from the last season of Revisionist History.

Don't forget my latest book, The Bomber Mafia, which is an expansion of several episodes from the last season of Revisionist History. You can find it wherever books are sold, but by the audio book at BomberMafia.com and you'll get a bonus listener's guide and you can listen in the podcast app you're using now.

Don't forget my latest book The Bomber Mafia which is an expansion of several episodes from the last season of Revisionist History You can find it wherever books are sold but buy the audiobook at BomberMafia.com and you'll get a bonus listeners guide and you can listen in the podcast app you're using now

Don't forget my latest book, The Bomber Mafia, which is an expansion of several episodes from the last season of Revisionist History.

I could not put it down. I've read now the print version and listened to the audio version, and I'm still hooked.

This book is the story of the conflict between two kind of legendary World War II Air Force generals, Curtis LeMay and Heywood Hansel.

This is the most fun book I've ever done. Never had so much fun writing a book.

I'm much older than you, Adam, I get to say things like that. At my advanced age, I discovered this fantastic thing called strength in numbers. The joy of shared obsession.

My audio book, The Bomber Mafia is available at bombermafia.com

I think it's anybody who's listened to Revisionist History the last couple seasons knows how obsessed you are with it. But for those who are not initiated, give us the teaser.

I could not put it down. I've read now the print version and listened to the audio version, and I'm still hooked.

This book is the story of the conflict between two kind of legendary World War II Air Force generals, Curtis LeMay and Haywood Hansel.

It's like fantastic, right? It's that. And why? Because everyone else was as into this idea as I was, right? And pursuing different parts of it.

My audiobook, The Bomber Mafia, is available at bombermafia.com.

Today is a very big day for me. It is the launch of my newest book, The Bomber Mafia, A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War.

Those of you who are devoted Revisionist History listeners will remember that last season I did four episodes on the firebombing of Tokyo at the end of the Second World War.

I've taken that little kernel from last season and built an entirely new audiobook around it.

The story starts back in the 1930s with an obsessive band of pilots in central Alabama called themselves The Bomber Mafia, who thought they could reinvent war.

What happened when they put those theories to the test is the story of my new book, The Bomber Mafia.

Today is a very big day for me. It is the launch of my newest book, The Bomber Mafia, A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War.

You can buy The Bomber Mafia from Audible or Apple Books or any place you usually get books. And it's available in print and ebook and audiobook.

Those of you who are devoted Revisionist History listeners will remember that last season I did four episodes on the firebombing of Tokyo at the end of the Second World War. Curtis LeMay, the birth of Napalm, the war over the skies of Tokyo in the spring of 1945.

I've taken that little kernel from last season and built an entirely new audiobook around it. You'll hear a little bit of material that previously appeared in my podcast Revisionist History, but in those instances the material's been expanded with more archival footage, new writing, enhanced scoring, and a whole new context.

What happened when they put those theories to the test is the story of my new book, The Bomber Mafia.

My book, Blink, which was misinterpreted as a book celebrating gut instincts, when in fact it was the opposite, was about this.

Malcolm's own misadventure trying to adapt his bestselling book, Blink.

I wrote a book called... My second book, Blink, was a book that looked critically at... When I say critically, it examined both the pros and cons of snap judgments. But you had to keep reading. It started out on the pros. And then as I dug deeper, got interested in the cons.

The number of people who either supported or loved that book or hated that book because they perceived it as being a book about celebrating snap judgments was limitless.

Did a chapter on that in my book Blink in 2004.

right after publishing my second book Blink, I realized I was spending all my time answering emails and booking travel instead of writing.

Perhaps you've read one of his New York Times bestselling books like The Tipping Point or Outliers, or maybe you listen to Malcolm's podcast Revisionist History.

But you should define that.

An idea that you thoroughly decimated in Outliers, I will point out.

A couple of years ago, I wrote a book called Outliers.

So I turned to the iconic public speaker, best-selling author of multiple zeitgeist-making books like The Tipping Point and Outliers, among others.

The Tipping Point and Outliers, among others.

I can't sit here and listen to Malcolm Gladwell talking about fact checking and the importance of it. Not to get too mean, Malcolm. I read your book, David and Goliath.

The chapter on Northern Ireland is more filled with inaccuracies than any other chapter in a nonfiction book I have read. It is.

Having written a not very well selling but widely acclaimed book on Northern Ireland myself, my book on Northern Ireland didn't sell anywhere near as much as yours did, Malcolm. But mine was filled with facts.

Malcolm Gladwell's book, David and Goliath, has some interesting things to say about this fight.

Goliath wasn't quite as fearsome as he seemed. He was at least 6ft9, but humans aren't built to be that big.

Malcolm Gladwell's book, David and Goliath, has some interesting things to say about this fight.

Goliath wasn't quite as fearsome as he seemed. He was at least 6ft9, but humans aren't built to be that big. One plausible explanation is that Goliath was suffering from a medical condition which causes the production of too much growth hormone.

When you came out with 'David and Goliath', I remember talking and I was thinking that you wrote this book about underdogs because you love to root for the underdog. And you said no.

The Rings of Power is a prequel to the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

It is set thousands of years before those events.

Tolkien wrote enormous amounts of lore, so this is a new story set thousands of years before The Lord of the Rings.

We do meet some of the characters in The Lord of the Rings. For example we meet Elrond, we meet Galadriel, they are elves.

this is a source of ultimate evil and corruption in The Lord of the Rings.

that's expressed in The Lord of the Rings is that Morgoth took elves and then he twisted elves in mockery and turned them into orcs and that was the worst thing he ever did was to take elves and turn them into orcs.

and it can only be destroyed in Mount Doom.

that Lord of the Rings was an allegory.

He hated the idea that the One Ring for example was really the atomic bomb.

He once wrote if Lord of the Rings was an allegory the elves would have used the One Ring immediately which of course I guess is true because the allies use the atomic bomb.

oh, it's like Smaug. Smaug the dragon from The Hobbit who sits on a mountain of treasure.

His red eyes blinked as he lay alone. His joy was dead and his youth spent. He was knobbed and wrinkled and his limbs bent in the long years to his gold chain. His heart's furnace, the fire waned.

To his belly's slime gems stuck thick, silver and gold he would snuff and lick. To his belly's slime gems stuck thick.

When the moon was new and the sun young, Of silver and gold the gods sung. In the green grass lay silver spill, And the white waters lay with gold filled. In Tolkien's poem The Horde, Everyone who desired the treasure dies in the end, But the treasure remains, Buried deep in giant warehouses in New Jersey.

There is an old horde in a dark rock, Forgotten behind doors none can unlock, That grim gate no man can pass. On the mound grows the green grass, Their sheep feed and the lark saw, And the wind blows from the seashore. The old horde the night shall keep, While earth waits and the elves sleep.

oh, it's like Smaug. Smaug the dragon from The Hobbit who sits on a mountain of treasure.

His red eyes blinked as he lay alone. His joy was dead and his youth spent. He was knobbed and wrinkled and his limbs bent in the long years to his gold chain. His heart's furnace, the fire waned.

To his belly's slime gems stuck thick, silver and gold he would snuff and lick. To his belly's slime gems stuck thick.

When the moon was new and the sun young, Of silver and gold the gods sung. In the green grass lay silver spill, And the white waters lay with gold filled.

There is an old horde in a dark rock, Forgotten behind doors none can unlock, That grim gate no man can pass. On the mound grows the green grass, Their sheep feed and the lark saw, And the wind blows from the seashore. The old horde the night shall keep, While earth waits and the elves sleep.

oh, it's like Smaug. Smaug the dragon from The Hobbit who sits on a mountain of treasure.

Smaug doesn't want to use his gold. He doesn't wear it out to dragon social events. He does not list his holdings on his annual dragon financial statement. He just wants to hoard it.

He's eating this cookie and all of a sudden it brings him back to his childhood when his aunt used to make these cookies for him and he remembers the way it felt.

He's eating this cookie and all of a sudden it brings him back to his childhood when his aunt used to make these cookies for him and he remembers the way it felt.

A little bit like, the phenomena is like hearing a song from your childhood.

What started to dawn on me was that with people with this problem, these objects form that kind of experience in a much more intense way than everybody else.

So somehow these objects are keys to these visceral memories that get produced.

I've known Simon ever since he wrote a book called Eccentric Glamour years ago, which included chapters on Simone de Beauvoir, Tilda Swinton, the supermodel Iman, and me, which remains the most preposterously inaccurate but nonetheless deeply flattering thing anyone has ever written about me.

I've known Simon ever since he wrote a book called Eccentric Glamour years ago, which included chapters on Simone de Beauvoir, Tilda Swinton, the supermodel Iman, and me, which remains the most preposterously inaccurate but nonetheless deeply flattering thing anyone has ever written about me.

I've known Simon ever since he wrote a book called Eccentric Glamour years ago, which included chapters on Simone de Beauvoir, Tilda Swinton, the supermodel Iman, and me, which remains the most preposterously inaccurate but nonetheless deeply flattering thing anyone has ever written about me.

I don't know if you've ever read Michael Lewis's famous book Moneyball about the analytics nerds who took over baseball.

You mentioned Moneyball earlier. It really is Moneyball. Yeah, it is 100%.

I don't know if you've ever read Michael Lewis's famous book Moneyball about the analytics nerds who took over baseball.

You mentioned Moneyball earlier. It really is Moneyball. Yeah, it is 100%.

Every square foot of the great room and dining room was packed with works of art and period furniture. 18th and 19th century paintings, sculptures, busts, antiques, lamps, jewelry and more.

It's just that lovely scene in the book when you're walking through Alvin's apartment with him and he's picking up objects.

Every square foot of the great room and dining room was packed with works of art and period furniture.

18th and 19th century paintings, sculptures, busts, antiques, lamps, jewelry and more.

They had no pathways between all of their stuff. You stepped over things as you walked. Some of the piles were six feet high.

He spoke to us about the hurdles society is up against because of our lack of connection and how as a culture we've shifted from a front porch to a backyard culture where we frantically build hedges to ensure we will never come into contact with a neighbor as long as we both shall live.

Growing up in New Jersey my family used to eat dinner on our front porch and chat with every stranger who strolled by. We are still close friends with all of our neighbors past and present but these days we build up these hedges and hope to never get even so much as a glimpse of another person and God forbid someone should knock on the door.

I've written a new book called Talking to Strangers, and it's about the mistakes we make in our interactions with people we don't know.

Talking to Strangers features con artists and sociopaths and spies.

It talks about how drinking affects the way we make sense of others.

There's an incredibly interesting book that was written about a suburb of Buffalo, a wealthy suburb of Buffalo. I think it's Williamsville, not sure, Amherst. The book, I think it's called The Safest City in America.

There's an incredibly interesting book that was written about a suburb of Buffalo, a wealthy suburb of Buffalo. I think it's Williamsville, not sure, Amherst. The book I think is called The Safest City in America. It was about how there's no juvenile delinquency in Williamsville.

In both the original Hans Christian Andersen version of The Little Mermaid and in the Disney version, The Little Mermaid must surrender her voice to the sea witch in order to participate in the real world.

Why have not we an immortal soul? asked The Little Mermaid mournfully. I would gladly give all the hundreds of years that I have to live to be a human being only for one day and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars.

You probably know some Hans Christian Andersen tales. The Princess and the Pea, The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen.

He never felt, at least for him, what he would consider true happiness, and that was the motor of all of his tales. The frustration he felt comes out in most of the tales that he wrote.

Rosebud, so firm and round, lovely as a young girl's mouth, I kiss you as my bride.

The amative poem continues with further kisses and an exhortation to feel my fire. Unquote.

Adam's is called Think Again, which I really loved.

Adam, can you give us an overview of Think Again?

I'm reading this book, and it's like, why are you, you're like jumping ahead to the next idea, and I'm not done with the one you're on.

Adams, Think Again, is available wherever books are sold.

Adam's is called Think Again, which I really loved.

And Adam's Think Again is available wherever books are sold.

Adam, can you give us, can you give us an overview of Think Again?

My only critique of this, I have a critique of this book, by the way. I hope you have more than one. I have several. But my large one, which is a, is it's four books.

What I want to do is activate rethinking cycles where we have the humility to know what we don't know. We doubt some of our convictions. That makes us curious to go and discover new things.

I'm talking with Corina Longworth, author of the most fascinating of the Howard Hughes biographies, of which there are many.

I have a new book coming out. It's called Revenge of the Tipping Point. It's a sequel to The Tipping Point, my very first book from 25 years ago.

This time around, in Revenge of the Tipping Point, I'm taking those ideas and going one big step deeper. Now I'm interested in the dark side.

And today we're sharing an exclusive preview of chapter one of the audiobook of Revenge of the Tipping Point. It's all about bank robbers and doctors, and that's all I'm going to tell you, because you'll have to listen to find out more.

Thanks for listening to that preview of my new book, Revenge of the Tipping Point. You can hear the rest on Audible, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Spotify, Pushkin.FM or wherever you like to listen.

This episode is part of a little mini-series I'm doing to introduce my new book called Revenge of the Tipping Point, the sequel to my very first book from 25 years ago, The Tipping Point.

If you read Revenge, and of course I really hope you do, you'll see that halfway through Chapter 5, the mysterious case of the Harvard women's rugby team, I make reference to a court case called U.S. v. Coury.

But in Chapter 5 of Revenge of the Tipping Point, I tell only part of the story of U.S. v. Coury.

I lost sleep over trying to shoehorn the whole Coury case into my book because I regard U.S. v. Coury as one of the all-time most riveting, most unintentionally hilarious, most heartbreaking legal battles ever.

His Caesar-like features lighting up, and those piercing eyes softening into friendliness.

A lesser man would be crippled by a sentence like that, but not Charles Sherrill.

It was a last chance. So I went right at him with a question. What would Bismarck, master of foreigner psychology, do today?

We almost always tell the story of Jesse Owens' gold medals as a story of triumph. Actually, Triumph is the title of a bestselling book about him.

in War and Peace, and I'm paraphrasing, of course, because you can't remember Tolstoy word for word, there's a sequence where a young man who'd been at a battle, I think the Battle of Borodino, is in Moscow in a drawing room telling these very attractive young ladies about his war experiences.

One is, without the spiritual component, this is from the chapter called The Unseen, without the spiritual component, the artist works with a crucial disadvantage.

The spiritual component is belief in something bigger, something different, whatever it is. It could be believing in some universal power, believing that if you walk under a ladder, you'll have bad luck.

When looking for a solution to a creative problem, pay close attention to what's happening around you.

Self-expression is not about you.

The work has five mistakes, it's not yet completed. When it has eight mistakes, it might be.