The Prime Minister and the Prof | Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell

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The friendship that changed the course of World War II.
How does friendship influence political power? The story of Winston Churchill’s close friend and confidant - an eccentric scientist named Frederick Lindemann - whose connection to Churchill altered the course of British policy in World War II. And not in a good way.
Season 2 (2017)
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Malcolm Gladwell is president and co-founder of Pushkin Industries. He is a journalist, a speaker, and the author of six New York Times bestsellers including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, David and Goliath, and Talking to Strangers. He has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1996. He is a trustee of the Surgo Foundation and currently serves on the board of the RAND Corporation.
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@ricardomurillo5205 Год назад

Very well explained. Gladwell is my favorite story taller. As Galeano would say a sentipensante (thinkfeeler)

@cae02 Год назад

Thank you for posting these to RU-vid

@gsilcoful Год назад

Thank you. Very sad and disturbing.

@sgaverill Год назад

I’m

@dispatchteam729 Год назад

AWESOMENESS

@donaldjmccann Год назад

I think the positive contributions to WW2 of Lindemann were largely overlooked by your posting, but there are certainly sharp questions to be asked about the treatment of India. Churchill was as flawed a man as any of us, but it could be argued that German would be the common language of Merseyside, if someone other than Churchill had been thrust into heading the war cabinet. From my front window I can see unexpected diagonals of missing houses, that were the result of bombings in Liverpool 80 years ago. My mother lost 13 of her school-mates in a direct hit on a bomb shelter that she was (luckily) prevented from attending by my grandparents. It is tragic that nobody has to this day figured out that bombing civilian populations does not diminish their will to fight. On the contrary, it only makes them more bloody-minded. The Ukraine war is just the latest example.

@robertpembroke8902 Год назад

One of my ancestors lived in Haiti where his Father took care of diplomatic concerns in the region. The Son of the Diplomat when He was sufficiently wealthy left Haiti and traveled to Australia where He took up a job as a Station Manager for farming of livestock according to my late Aunt who died recently a year ago at 100 yo circa., My Uncle served on the Australian Detachment to the Halifax Bomber Squadrons for the RAF in WW2; the other one loaded the bombs; my other Uncle was on the last boat out of Singapore when the Japanese annexed the island in WW2. He use to blame me for the way his Son lost an eye (OEM {.i.e., 'One Eye Missing' Directors Joke) because I was very fond of Errol Flynn pirate movies. Some one poked his Son in the eye with a stick when He was a child. It wasn't me. I wasn't born yet at that time;) My Aunty was a Wac and worked in Mc Arthur Chambers. I worked on Queen St, Brisbane, just across the road from where she had been doing work for General Mc Arthur I presume when He did the offensive planning. I use to walk by the place on my way to lunch each day when I was in my later teens and I didn't even know;) It's a serendipity story where I even worked briefly in an Embassy in Canberra next to the Governor-Generals residence. He had worked with my Father as Police Officer. Isn't that amazing! How is that possible? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KujN8Pjl7Zg.html

@robertpembroke8902 Год назад

When one of my Uncles returned from Singapore after retreating from the Japanese my Mother said that He was as skinny as a rake. She was a child of about 10 yo when He returned from the War. He went to work in a Hardware if I recall (?) I did that to for a short time. It's a good job if you like home decorating. When He retired He use to play a Hammond Organ;)

@mrstarskydean Год назад

1. Ships from Australia going past India on the way to Britain? - check out a world map, the South Atlantic was a safer bet in 1943. 2. Check out the Library of Congress. Letters from Churchill to Roosevelt asking for food support for India

@cae02 Год назад

I found a letter from 1944, not 1943 history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1944v05/d281 There is definitely debate regarding Churchill’s role and several rebuttals to the assertions in Ms. Mukerjee book..... My opinion: the whole truth is probably impossible to know, but Churchill’s overall opinion of India and the colonies is well documented. He was an outspoken imperialist. To blame him 100% may not be accurate, but to absolve him 100% would be completely inaccurate IMO

@DrNancyLivingCoCreatively Год назад

Great get Malcolm. I read cp snow long ago in college. I feel snow was brilliant. And now oppression and community.

@nasirfazal5440 Год назад

remarkable:۔۔۔۔Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal gold medalist Cambridge USA۔

@mikejackson2228 Год назад

,,,,,that exact thing happens in The Joy Luck Club. They're on the refugee boat at night and they come across a patrol. The baby is about to cry and kill them all; so the mother drowns her baby in the lake...

@robertpembroke8902 Год назад

The Reason for Slavery Joke I'm about to make a short doco video where I describe why Slavery occurs across Ethnicity. Why do particular Races end up being Slaves.? The answers quite interesting because it relies on rather substantive explanations that are largely absent from mainstream thinking about slavery. It involves an observation about the Paddle Steamer of the Mississippi River and the author Mister Mark Twain. It's an Australian view about explanations for Slavery:)

@LeithYearwood 10 месяцев назад

Don't forget to include the 1 million slavic whites mostly enslaved in the Barbary Coast slave trade or the millions of blacks enslaved by the Arabs and their castrations of young black males.

@Mia-go3kx Год назад

So the British politics hasn't changed much since the war. What a surprise ha ha.

@hatjodelka Год назад

The only thing I knew about Lindemann before this podcast was that he was a racist eugenicist.

@FFSammie Год назад

Who apparently had all the charm of Ted Bundy. There's a reason people seem "so surprised" when they find someone they liked so much was really a monster.