Malcolm glatwell is the host of revisionist, a podcast about things overlooked and misunderstood. Over the next four episodes he will tell the story of curtis lemay who fell head over heels for an airplane in 19 forty five. The events i'm going to talk about all took place a lifetime ago, at the end of the second world war. But everything about lamay's story seems very modern to me, mostly because everything about lemay seems very modern. It feels like he started something that we're still in the middle of.
On the eve of the Second World War, a band of visionaries at Maxwell Air Force Base tried to reimagine modern warfare. They failed. Part one on the extraordinary life of the Air Force General Curtis LeMay.
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