The John Batchelor Show

Friday 12 November 2021

Air Date: 
November 12, 2021

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

9-915  
#PacificWatch: Container ships waiting 150 miles at sea.  Jeff Bliss, @JCBliss
https://www.dailynews.com/2021/11/11/new-ship-queue-system-aims-to-cut-congestion-pollution-at-ports-of-la-long-beach/
 

915-930 
New Zealand vs Australia cricket T20 World Cup showdown. Scott Mayman @CBSNews
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/cricket/new-zealand-australia-t20-world-cup-final-2021-watch-live-tv-uk-time/
 

930-945 
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Inflation for Christmas @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/business/economy/consumer-price-inflation-october.html

945-1000 
#SmallBusinessAmerica: Leaving the job for better days.  @GeneMarks  @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
https://money.yahoo.com/the-great-resignation-is-creating-more-entrepreneurs-side-hustlers-and-freelancers-162636793.html

SECOND HOUR  

10-1015 
Travels to the abandoned of Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Kurdistan, Ukraine, Greece by a French celebrity. @JoshRogin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/11/04/climate-change-biden-xi-jinping-china-cooperation/
 
 
1015-1030 
Farewell to the Canadian philanthropist W. Galen Weston.  @ConradMBlack
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/conrad-black-looking-back-on-the-life-of-galen-weston-a-great-man-who-built-a-business-and-philanthropic-empire
 
 

1030-1045 
NASA speaks candidly of SLS in 2025.  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/nasa-admits-manned-lunar-landing-cant-happen-before-25/
 

1045-1100 
An asteroid remnant of the moon birth?  Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-asteroid-in-an-orbit-entwined-with-the-earth-might-be-moon-rock/

THIRD HOUR     

1100-1115   
1/8    The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
https://www.amazon.com/Cause-American-Revolution-Discontents-1773-1783/dp/1631498983

For more than two centuries, historians have debated the history of the American Revolution, disputing its roots, its provenance and, above all, its meaning. These questions have intrigued Ellis―one of our most celebrated scholars of American history―throughout his entire career. With this much-anticipated volume, he at last brings the story of the revolution to vivid life, with “surprising relevance” (Susan Dunn) for our modern era. Completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers, The Cause returns us to the very heart of the American founding, telling the military and political story of the war for independence from the ground up, and from all sides: British and American, loyalist and patriot, white and Black.

Taking us from the end of the Seven Years’ War to 1783, and drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, The Cause interweaves action-packed tales of North American military campaigns with parlor-room intrigues back in England, creating a thrilling narrative that brings together a cast of familiar and long-forgotten characters. Here, Ellis recovers the stories of Catherine Littlefield Greene, wife of Major General Nathanael Greene, the sister among the “band of brothers”; Thayendanegea, a Mohawk chief known to the colonists as Joseph Brant, who led the Iroquois Confederation against the Patriots; and Harry Washington, the enslaved namesake of George Washington, who escaped Mount Vernon to join the British Army and fight against his former master.

Countering popular histories that romanticize the “Spirit of ’76,” Ellis demonstrates that the rebels fought under the mantle of “The Cause,” a mutable, conveniently ambiguous principle that afforded an umbrella under which different, and often conflicting, convictions and goals could coexist. Neither an American nation nor a viable government existed at the end of the war. In fact, one revolutionary legacy regarded the creation of such a nation, or any robust expression of government power, as the ultimate betrayal of The Cause. This legacy alone rendered any effective response to the twin tragedies of the founding―slavery and the Native American dilemma―problematic at best.

Written with the vivid and muscular prose for which Ellis is known, and with characteristically trenchant insight, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era. A landmark work of narrative history, it challenges the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people, and as a nation.

6 illustrations; 7 maps

1115-1130 
2/8   The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 

1130-1145 
3/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 

1145-1200 
4/8  The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 

 

FOURTH HOUR   

12-1215 
5/8  The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 

1215-1230 
6/8  The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 

1230-1245 
7/8 The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 

1245-100 AM 
8/8  The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783, by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D.    Hardcover – September 21, 2021 
 
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