The John Batchelor Show

Monday 20 February 2023

Air Date: 
February 20, 2023

CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR

FIRST HOUR

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1/4.  His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub  

Abraham Lincoln, our greatest president, believed that our national character was defined by three key moments: the writing of the Constitution, our declaration of independence from England, and the beginning of slavery on the North American continent. His thoughts on these landmarks can be traced through three speeches: the Lyceum Address, the Gettysburg Address, and the Second Inaugural. The latter two are well-known, enshrined forever on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial. The first is much less familiar to most, written a quarter-century before his presidency, when he was a 28-year-old Illinois state legislator.

In His Greatest Speeches, Professor Diana Schaub offers a brilliant, line-by-line analysis of these timeless works, placing them in historical context and explaining the brilliance behind their rhetoric. The result is a complete vision of Lincoln’s worldview that is sure to fascinate and inspire general readers and history buffs alike. This book is a wholly original resource for considering the difficult questions of American purpose and identity, questions that are no less contentious or essential today than they were a century and a half ago

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2/4.  His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub 

 
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3/4.  His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub  

945-1000

4/4.  His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation, by Diana Schaub  

SECOND HOUR

10-1015

1/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

https://www.amazon.com/Travels-George-Search-Washington-Legacy/dp/0525562176/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing—Americans.

In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called “the infant woody country” to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife, Melissa, and their dog, Dora, Philbrick follows Washington’s presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a monthlong tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington’s and Philbrick’s eyes.

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2/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

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3/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

1045-1100
4/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

THIRD HOUR

1100-1115
5/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

1115-1130
6/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

 

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7/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

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8/8: United once upon a time. 1/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.

FOURTH HOUR

12-1215

 

1/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

https://www.amazon.com/Adapt-Be-Adept-Responses-Climate/dp/0817924558/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1618603521&refinements=p_27%3ATerry+Anderson&s=books&sr=1-1

How can markets help us adapt to the challenges of climate change? The editor Terry L. Anderson brings together this collection of essays featuring the work of nine leading policy analysts, who argue that market forces are just as important as government regulation in shaping climate policy—and should be at the heart of our response to helping societies adapt to climate change.

Anderson notes in his introduction that most current climate policies such as the Paris Agreement require hard-to-enforce collective action and focus on reducing or mitigating greenhouse gases rather than adapting to their negative effects. Adaptive actions can typically deliver much more, faster and more cheaply than any realistic climate policy. The authors tackle a range of issues: the hidden costs of renewable energy sources, the political obstacles surrounding climate change policy, insurance and financial instruments for pricing risk of exposure to the effects of climate change, and more.

Reliance on emerging renewable energies and a carbon tax are not enough to prevent the effects of global warming, they argue. We must encourage more private action and market incentives to adapt to a rapidly changing climate.

1215-1230

2/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

1230-1245

3/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)

1245-100 am

4/4: Adapt and Be Adept: Market Responses to Climate Change by Terry Anderson (Editor)