The Invention of an Epidemic

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Pushkin. Hello, hello, everyone. It's Malcolm Gladwell. I am here today to bring you something special. A chapter from my new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic.

It's chapter two, called The Slave Owners Lament, and it is to use the word we love here at Revisionist History, the absolutely banana story behind the Second Amendment to the US Constitution, the gun rights amendment, with guest appearances by eighteenth century Virginians, a brilliant Australian linguist, the delightfully named historian Carl Bogus, a lot of cranky Supreme Court justices, and, most of all, a charismatic African slave. named Jemmy. I am pleased to announce the publication of my new book, The American Way of Killing, The Invention of an Epidemic. Four episodes in all on maybe one of the most complicated and perplexing of American social issues.

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