Malcolm Gladwell
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Oh no! Conan, you're just bringing us down. I know. What happened to your famous joie de vivre?
Oh no! Conan, you're just bringing us down. I know. What happened to your famous joie de vivre?
You'll see. We're getting there. We're getting there. All right. We're getting there. This does not end well. Okay. If I have a sense.
You'll see. We're getting there. We're getting there. All right. We're getting there. This does not end well. Okay. If I have a sense.
You'll see. We're getting there. We're getting there. All right. We're getting there. This does not end well. Okay. If I have a sense.
Four part miniseries. So if you go back and you look at, I got... When I got interested in this, I got all the textbooks you would read in freshman year European history, in the 60s and the 70s. And if you read them, and you're reading, they got like four chapters on the Second World War. You read all four chapters, and you're looking for when they discuss the Holocaust.
Four part miniseries. So if you go back and you look at, I got... When I got interested in this, I got all the textbooks you would read in freshman year European history, in the 60s and the 70s. And if you read them, and you're reading, they got like four chapters on the Second World War. You read all four chapters, and you're looking for when they discuss the Holocaust.
Four part miniseries. So if you go back and you look at, I got... When I got interested in this, I got all the textbooks you would read in freshman year European history, in the 60s and the 70s. And if you read them, and you're reading, they got like four chapters on the Second World War. You read all four chapters, and you're looking for when they discuss the Holocaust.
And you look and you look and you look, and there's nothing there. There's like two sentences. There's like, and then the Germans created camps where they put displaced persons, gypsies, communists, and Jews, period. And then they go on to something else. You're like, wait, how is this? These are serious textbooks. And then you look, you can keep going.
And you look and you look and you look, and there's nothing there. There's like two sentences. There's like, and then the Germans created camps where they put displaced persons, gypsies, communists, and Jews, period. And then they go on to something else. You're like, wait, how is this? These are serious textbooks. And then you look, you can keep going.
And you look and you look and you look, and there's nothing there. There's like two sentences. There's like, and then the Germans created camps where they put displaced persons, gypsies, communists, and Jews, period. And then they go on to something else. You're like, wait, how is this? These are serious textbooks. And then you look, you can keep going.
And there's actually been a whole scholarship about how they weren't denying the Holocaust. They just weren't mentioning it. It wasn't discussed. It just wasn't. There's only one Holocaust museum in this country prior to the 1980s. And that's actually here in L.A. And that was one that was created almost by accident. I tell that story in the book.
And there's actually been a whole scholarship about how they weren't denying the Holocaust. They just weren't mentioning it. It wasn't discussed. It just wasn't. There's only one Holocaust museum in this country prior to the 1980s. And that's actually here in L.A. And that was one that was created almost by accident. I tell that story in the book.
And there's actually been a whole scholarship about how they weren't denying the Holocaust. They just weren't mentioning it. It wasn't discussed. It just wasn't. There's only one Holocaust museum in this country prior to the 1980s. And that's actually here in L.A. And that was one that was created almost by accident. I tell that story in the book.
A bunch of survivors are at Hollywood High learning English together, and they want a place to put their stuff, the stuff they can't bear to keep in their house, right? The uniform from Auschwitz or whatever. And then what happens, so this is, and if you look at, like, how often is the word Holocaust used in books, magazine articles, newspapers, up until 1979?
A bunch of survivors are at Hollywood High learning English together, and they want a place to put their stuff, the stuff they can't bear to keep in their house, right? The uniform from Auschwitz or whatever. And then what happens, so this is, and if you look at, like, how often is the word Holocaust used in books, magazine articles, newspapers, up until 1979?
A bunch of survivors are at Hollywood High learning English together, and they want a place to put their stuff, the stuff they can't bear to keep in their house, right? The uniform from Auschwitz or whatever. And then what happens, so this is, and if you look at, like, how often is the word Holocaust used in books, magazine articles, newspapers, up until 1979?