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出生：（1963 年 9 月 3 日）
是一名英国出生的加拿大记者、作家和公众演说家。自 1996 年以来，他一直是《纽约客》的特约撰稿人。格拉德威尔的作品经常涉及社会科学研究的意想不到的影响，如社会学和心理学，并经常和学术工作的扩展使用。格拉德威尔于 2011 年被任命为加拿大勋章。格拉德威尔出生于英格兰汉普郡的费勒姆。他的母亲是牙买加心理治疗师乔伊斯（出生的民族）格拉德威尔。他的父亲格雷厄姆·格拉德威尔 (格雷厄姆·格拉德威尔) 是英国肯特郡的一名数学教授。当他六岁时，他的家人从南安普顿搬到了加拿大安大略省埃尔迈拉的门诺派社区。他有两个兄弟。马尔科姆在整个童年时期都住在安大略省的门诺派乡村国家，在那里他参加了门诺派教堂。历史学家 小亨利·路易斯·盖茨. 所做的研究表明，格拉德威尔 的一位母系祖先是牙买加有色人种（黑白混血）的自由妇女，她是一名奴隶主。他的伟大-伟大-伟大-祖母是来自西非尼日利亚的伊博族。在他的书异常值 的结语中，他描述了他的家庭在几代人的过程中遇到的许多幸运情况，为他走向成功做出了贡献。格拉德威尔说他的母亲是他作为作家的榜样。
 他出版了七本书：
-引爆点 (2000)
-眨眼：不假思索的思考的力量 (2005)
-异常值：成功的故事 (2008)
-狗看到了什么：和其他冒险 (2009)
-大卫与歌利亚 (2013)
- 与陌生人交谈 (2019)
-轰炸机黑手党 (2021)

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The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history.
Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists, the “Bomber Mafia,” asked: What if precision bombing could cripple the enemy and make war far less lethal?
In contrast, the bombing of Tokyo on the deadliest night of the war was the brainchild of General Curtis LeMay, whose brutal pragmatism and scorched-earth tactics in Japan cost thousands of civilian lives, but may have spared even more by averting a planned US invasion. In The Bomber Mafia, Gladwell asks, “Was it worth it?”
Things might have gone differently had LeMay’s predecessor, General Haywood Hansell, remained in charge. Hansell believed in precision bombing, but when he and Curtis LeMay squared off for a leadership handover in the jungles of Guam, LeMay emerged victorious, leading to the darkest night of World War II. The Bomber Mafia is a riveting tale of persistence, innovation, and the incalculable wages of war.
"As a little boy, lying in his bed, my father would hear the planes overhead. On their way in. Then, in the small hours of the morning, heading back to Germany. This was in England, in Kent, a few miles south and east of London. My father was born in 1934, which meant he was five when the Second World War broke out. Kent was called Bomb Alley by the British, because it was the English county that German warplanes would fly over on their way to London."