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The John Batchelor Show

The John Batchelor Show is a hard news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. Based in New York City for two decades, the show has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia.

  1. GOD EVENING: The show begins in the Key stone State as senator Bob Casey concedes defeat with Senator-Elect Dave McCormick...

    11 HR. AGO

    GOD EVENING: The show begins in the Key stone State as senator Bob Casey concedes defeat with Senator-Elect Dave McCormick...

    GOD EVENING: The show begins in the Key stone State as senator Bob Casey concedes defeat with Senator-Elect Dave McCormick... llentown, PA1912  CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR FIRST HOUR 9:00-9:15: #KeystoneReport: Casey strikes out. Salena Zito, Middle of Somewhere, @DCExaminer Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New York Post, SalenaZito.com 9:15-9:30: #CA: vs FL. Bill Whalen, Hoover Institution 9:30-9:45: #SmallBusinessAmerica: The approaching storm of tariffs. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer 9:45-10:00: #SmallBusinessAmerica: Battle over WFH. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer SECOND HOUR 10:00-10:15: #PacificWatch: #VegasReport: Formula 1 Weekend. @JCBliss 10:15-10:30: #Lancaster Report: Pancake Fair packed with holiday spirit. Jim McTague, former Washington Editor, Barron's. @MCTagueJ, Author of the "Martin and Twyla Boundary Series." #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety 10:30-10:45: #SpaceX: Making Brownsville a tourist destination. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com 10:45-11:00: #India: Teaming with Australia to recover spacecraft Gaganyaan. Bob Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com THIRD HOUR 11:00-11:15: Part 5/8: Reagan: His Life and Legend with Max Boot 11:15-11:30: Part 6/8: Reagan: His Life and Legend with Max Boot 11:30-11:45: Part 7/8: Reagan: His Life and Legend with Max Boot 11:45-12:00: Part 8/8: Reagan: His Life and Legend with Max Boot FOURTH HOUR 12:00-12:15: #Russia: Hybrid Provocations. Henry Sokolski, NPEC 12:15-12:30: #Italy: For voters escaping POTUS-elect, a village in Sardinia. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan 12:30-12:45: 1/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution 12:45-1:00 AM: 2/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

    7 min
  2. 2/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

    11 HR. AGO

    2/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

    2/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution 1923 SCOTUS

    6 min
  3. 1/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

    12 HR. AGO

    1/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution

    1/2: #DOJ: Bondi, Gaetz, Garland. Richard Epstein, Hoover Institution 1937 SCOTUS

    14 min
  4. #IITALY: For voters escaping POTUS-ELECT, a village in Sardinia. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan.

    12 HR. AGO

    #IITALY: For voters escaping POTUS-ELECT, a village in Sardinia. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan.

    #IITALY: For voters escaping POTUS-ELECT, a village in Sardinia. Lorenzo Fiori, Milan. 1880 Peasant in Sardinia (1880s), by Giovanni Battista Quadrone

    9 min
  5. #Russia:Hybrid provocations. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

    12 HR. AGO

    #Russia:Hybrid provocations. Henry Sokolski, NPEC

    #Russia:Hybrid provocations. Henry Sokolski, NPEC 1865 Crimean War

    9 min
  6. 8/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    12 HR. AGO

    8/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    8/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024  by  Max Boot  (Author) 1983 Afghanistan https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445 The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor. The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift. Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

    9 min
  7. 7/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    12 HR. AGO

    7/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    7/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024  by  Max Boot  (Author) March 1981, the shooting https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445 The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor. The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift. Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

    11 min
  8. 6/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    12 HR. AGO

    6/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024 by Max Boot (Author)

    6/8 Reagan: His Life and Legend Hardcover – September 10, 2024  by  Max Boot  (Author)  1981 Inauguration Speech https://www.amazon.com/Reagan-Life-Legend-Max-Boot/dp/0871409445 The story begins not in star-studded Hollywood but in the cradle of the Midwest, small-town Illinois, where Reagan was born in 1911 to Nelle Clyde Wilson, a devoted Disciples of Christ believer, and Jack Reagan, a struggling, alcoholic salesman. Boot vividly creates a portrait of a handsome young man, indeed a much-vaunted lifeguard, whose early successes mirrored those of Horatio Alger. And contextualizing Reagan’s life against American history, Boot re-creates the world in which Reagan transitioned from local Iowa sportscaster to budding screen actor. The world of Hollywood from the 1930s to the 1950s would prove significant, not only in Reagan’s coming-of-age in such classics as Knute Rockne and Kings Row but during the twilight of his film career, when he played opposite a chimpanzee in Bedtime for Bonzo, and then his eventual emergence as a television host of General Electric Theater, which established his bona fides as one of the leading conservative voices of the time. Indeed, the leap to California governor in 1966 seemed almost preordained, in which Reagan became a bellwether for a nation in the throes of a generational shift. Reagan’s 1980 presidential election augured a shift that continues into this century. Boot writes not as a partisan but as a historian seeking to set the story straight. He explains how Reagan was an ideologue but also a supreme pragmatist who signed pro-abortion and gun control bills as governor, cut deals with Democrats in both Sacramento and Washington, and befriended Mikhail Gorbachev to end the Cold War. A master communicator, Reagan revived America’s spirits after the traumas of Vietnam and Watergate. But Boot also shows how Reagan was armored in obliviousness. He traces Reagan’s opposition to civil rights over forty years, reveals how he neglected the exploding AIDS epidemic, and details how America experienced a level of income inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. With its revelatory insights, Reagan: His Life and Legend is no apologia, depicting a man with a good-versus-evil worldview derived from his moralistic upbringing and Hollywood westerns. Providing fresh examinations of “trickle-down economics,” the Cold War’s end, the Iran-Contra affair, as well as a nuanced portrait of Reagan’s family, this definitive biography is as compelling a presidential biography as any in recent decades.

    8 min
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