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Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders

Revisionist History: The Alabama Murders

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Florence, Alabama. 1988. A preacher has an affair. A woman is murdered. One death cascades into more, stretching across decades and leaving no one untouched — victims, bystanders, perpetrators, and those just trying to help. Eventually, the consequences lead to the center of a hot national debate on who should be allowed to live, who should die, and how the state should kill them.

On The Alabama Murders, Malcolm Gladwell asks: why, in our efforts to alleviate suffering, do we so often make it worse?

Revisionist History is Malcolm Gladwell's journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood. Every episode re-examines something from the past—an event, a person, an idea, even a song—and asks whether we got it right the first time. From Pushkin Industries. Because sometimes the past deserves a second chance.

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  • Introducing Revisionist History

    Introducing Revisionist History
    Jun 3 2016

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    3 mins
  • The Lady Vanishes

    The Lady Vanishes
    Jun 16 2016

    In the late 19th century, a painting titled The Roll Call, by a virtually unknown artist, took England by storm. But after that brilliant first effort, the artist all but disappeared. Why? And what does The Roll Call tell us about the fate of those first through the door?

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    34 mins
  • Saigon, 1965

    Saigon, 1965
    Jun 23 2016

    In the early 1960s the Pentagon set up a top-secret research project in an old villa in downtown Saigon. The task? To interview captured North Vietnamese soldiers and guerrillas in order to measure the effect of relentless U.S. bombing on their morale. Yet despite a wealth of great data, even the leaders of the study couldn’t agree on what it meant.

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    41 mins
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Revisionist History is brilliant. It is outstanding.
It shows a deep and thorough understanding of so many different topics and events and gives me a new perspective on so many things. I feel like every episode I am saying "wow"!

My favourite podcast ever

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How does this not have any ratings yet. I love this podcast. I love Pushkin Industries and the majority of the content they produce. If you're a fan of Gladwell's books you will love this. If you're asking Glad who? Do yourself a favour and have a listen.

Brilliant.

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A persuasive argument for the need to flip our perspectives on good stories that can alternate in the way they are told without discrediting or dismissing another's experience (ie as long as no harm is done)

Entertaining, insightful

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