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Surrendering a major economic and military advantage, america got nothing. its a remarkable story and its painful and fascinating. he wrote about that deal in his book which is outstanding called it goliath, the hundred year war between monopoly power and democracy. he joins us tonight. matt, thanks so much for coming on. i cant overstate how mesmerizing i found your account of this. its just jaw-dropping. if every detail. its infuriating. but some it out for us in a few minutes and we have hear...

With a swing he could be deadly at a distance. and there is plenty of modern research to explain why. >> i had a conversation with this ballistics experts who had done the math and pointed out that the projectile, the rock from davids slink was moving at about -- would have hit goliath with the speed of a .45 caliber handgun. >> how do you find an israeli ballistics expert who had done this study? >> there was a paper about seven years ago -- >> how did you hear about international ballistics co...

This ballistics experts who had done the math and pointed out that the projectile, the rock from davids sling was moving at about 45 miles an hour and would have hit goliath with the speed of a .45 caliber handgun. >> how do you find an israeli ballistics expert who had done this study? >> there was a paper about seven year ago at a conference. it was at the international ballistics conference. >> how did you hear about international ballistics conference? >> if youre as much of a nerd as i am, ...

Publishing world goliath. but in terms of the life of the mind, like david, in that he likes to show us new ways of approaching things. gladwell explains that david was an expert slinger and historians say in those times experienced slingers could kill a target from 200 yards away. medieval paintings show slingers hitting birds in flight and in the old testament, slingers are said to be accurate within a hairs breath. gladwell writes a ballistics expert tells him, a stone hurled from 35 meters a...