Behind the Scenes with Andrew Jarecki

Malcolm Gladwell here, my new book, The American Way of Killing, investigates America's gun violence crisis. Why is the richest country in the world plagued by such lethal violence? Through a series of stories, interviews, and archival tape, I confront one of today's most urgent moral dilemmas and examine Why the US has never quite understood its own problem and why you can't fix what you refuse to see clearly. Get the American way of killing at pushkin.fm slash audiobooks or at Audible, Spotify, or wherever audiobooks are sold.

Pushkin. Hello, hello, revisionist history listeners. As many of you will know, we did a seven-part series last fall called The Alabama Murders, the story of the death of a preacher's wife in the shoals in northwestern Alabama 35 years ago, and the tragic reverberations of that case. I honestly think it's one of the best things we've ever done on revisionist history. And almost the exact time that our series dropped, HBO aired a brilliant documentary called The Alabama Solution.

The revisionist history series was about the death penalty in Alabama. The Alabama solution was about the prison system in Alabama. We have record numbers of people leaving out of here in body bags. They don't want the public competition. What's really going on on the headback?

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