Revisionist History

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
  • Editor: Podcast
  • Duración: 102:50:36
  • Mas informaciones

Informações:

Sinopsis

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

Episodios

  • Presenting Gone South

    26/12/2024 Duración: 28min

    Here's an episode from a podcast that you may enjoy. Presenting Gone South. This episode looks at the life and legacy of Buford Pusser, an iconic American law enforcement figure. The film "Walking Tall," starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, is based on Pusser's life as a cop. But recent revelations are turning Pusser's legacy on its head.  Gone South, an Audacy original podcast, is available now on the free Audacy app and wherever you get your podcasts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • A Very Terminator Christmas

    18/12/2024 Duración: 44min

    What happens when the biggest movie star in the world directs the smallest Christmas film on basic cable? A holiday miracle.  Today on the show: The never-before-published, extremely bizarre story of the making of ‘Christmas in Connecticut’... the remake.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Gambling with Michael Lewis

    21/11/2024 Duración: 52min

    Michael Lewis, host of Against the Rules and author of Moneyball, The Big Short, Liar’s Poker, and Going Infinite, joins Malcolm to talk about the wild world of sports betting. Then, a preview of Against the Rules season 4, which is legal in New Jersey (listen to find out why), or wherever you get your podcasts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • John Birch vs. the PTA

    31/10/2024 Duración: 32min

    In the 1960s, a right-wing organization led by a former candy tycoon rose to fame in America for their anti-communist campaigns. They called themselves the John Birch Society. Then, they tried to take over the Parent-Teacher Association. This week, what the battle between the two organizations tells us about the fate of American politics, and the history of your Halloween candy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Exploring Life-Saving AI Tech with T-Mobile for Business

    29/10/2024 Duración: 52min

    How is 5G powering the use of AI to revolutionize life-saving solutions? Malcolm sits with T-Mobile for Business CMO Mo Katibeh, 3AM Innovations COO Ryan Litt, and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine's Dr. Azizi Seixas to find out in this special episode of Revisionist History. Brought to you in partnership with T-Mobile for Business, and recorded live from the Mobile World Congress in Las Vegas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Tipping Point Revisited: Broken Windows

    24/10/2024 Duración: 31min

    In The Tipping Point, Malcolm helped popularize a controversial approach to policing called “Broken Windows Theory” that is often credited for keeping crime rates down. Now, 25 years later, he goes back and audits his chapter on crime. Did he get it right? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Tipping Point Revisited: Live with David Remnick

    17/10/2024 Duración: 01h02min

    On the very first stop of the Revenge of the Tipping Point book tour, Malcolm sat down with David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, at the 92Y in New York City. The old friends and former colleagues discuss Malcolm’s past work, his new book and how he traces his love of storytelling back to playing endless games of Monopoly as a child.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 2

    10/10/2024 Duración: 36min

    What exactly constitutes a bribe? The Georgetown Massacre continues, and the defense calls a surprise witness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 1

    03/10/2024 Duración: 37min

    In the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scandal, the government indicted more than 50 people. Business leaders. Celebrities. Actors. Rich people accused of paying millions of dollars to get their children into elite universities. The Department of Justice was successful in all but one case: U.S. v. Khoury. What we’re calling: The Georgetown Massacre.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • The Tipping Point Revisited: An Excerpt

    26/09/2024 Duración: 46min

    Today, we’re sharing an exclusive preview of the audiobook of Revenge of the Tipping Point. All about bank robbers and doctors. Find Revenge of the Tipping Point wherever you get audiobooks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

    22/08/2024 Duración: 44min

    In the season finale, we turn back the clock four years, take a side trip to Alabama, meet an extraordinary man named Billy Garland, and ask: What is the right way to reconcile something pure with the messiness of the real world?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”

    15/08/2024 Duración: 33min

    In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it turns out the Nazis were studying us too. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

    08/08/2024 Duración: 44min

    Jesse Owens spent the rest of his life retelling the story of the 1936 games and his encounter with Luz Long. We trace the evolution of a tall tale, discovering the hidden life of one of America’s iconic sports heroes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

    01/08/2024 Duración: 38min

    The most famous athlete in Berlin was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous stories from those Games was the unexpected, heartwarming encounter Owens had with the German long jumper Luz Long. The friendship between the two athletes would serve as a symbol of how sports can overcome national antagonisms. We wonder: What really happened at the long jump pit that day? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

    26/07/2024 Duración: 38min

    Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their unique takes to Olympic stories. This special episode includes excerpts from a few: a Cautionary Tale about underestimating female marathoners, a Jesse Owens story from Revisionist History’s series on Hitler’s Olympics, and—from What’s Your Problem—the new technology that’s helping Olympic athletes get stronger. Check out other show feeds as well, the Happiness Lab and A Slight Change of Plans are also going to the Games. Sylvia Blemker of Springbok Analytics on What’s Your Problem The Women Who Broke the Marathon Taboo on Cautionary Tales Hitler’s Olympics from Revisionist HistorySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour

    25/07/2024 Duración: 36min

    A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness. And an idealist faces an existential choice. In the fifth episode of Hilter’s Olympics, Avery Brundage faces the reality for Jewish athletes in Nazi Germany and makes a critical decision.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

    18/07/2024 Duración: 42min

    The cheerleader-in-chief for the American Olympic movement was a brilliant, self-made Chicago tycoon named Avery Brundage. Brundage did more to ensure the success of the Berlin Games than anyone except Hitler. But what exactly were his motivations? We meet the man behind the curtain and witness his secret shame.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 3: Mustache to Mustache

    11/07/2024 Duración: 35min

    With the fate of the Olympics on the line, Charles Sherrill travels to Germany to take up the question of Jewish athletes directly with the Führer. We dig through a dusty archive to uncover a long-buried account of their meeting. The wolf met with the chicken. Guess who won? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 2: Pangloss, Polonius, Prufrock

    04/07/2024 Duración: 32min

    Charles Sherrill was everything a gentleman of his generation was supposed to be: rich, handsome, charming, Ivy-Leagued. He was impossibly well connected and extravagantly mustachioed. He was also the person who, as much as anything, decided whether American athletes would participate in the 1936 Olympics. Faced with one of the great moral dilemmas of the day, America needed the wisdom of Solomon. Instead, it got the wisdom of Sherrill. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

  • Hitler’s Olympics, Part 1: The Blue-Eyed Tornado

    27/06/2024 Duración: 35min

    In the early 1930s, Adolf Hitler granted a rare interview to the American journalist Dorothy Thompson. When Hitler later came to power, and prepared to stage the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Thompson’s warning about the man she’d met would frame the central debate over the games: Should we go? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

página 2 de 9