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Guest: Richard Bernstein I’m a book writer and free-lance journalist now living in Brooklyn, New York, after a career spanning more than three decades as a foreign correspondent, culture reporter, and book critic, first for Time Magazine and then for the New York Times. I was born in New York, NY, but grew up on a poultry farm in East Haddam, Connecticut, a small town on the Connecticut River. I went to the University of Connecticut as an undergrad and then spent five years at Harvard working toward a Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages. I assumed I’d become a college professor someplace, but I always kept journalism as a more exciting alternative in the back of my mind, and when I went to Taiwan in 1971 to study Chinese, I got my first very part-time job, as the stringer there for the Washington Post. That led to my first real job, as a staff writer for Time Magazine, where I was a rewrite man specializing in Asia. I spent the mid-1980s as a China-watcher in Hong Kong for Time, and then in 1980, after China and the United States established diplomatic relations, I became the first ever Time correspondent in Beijing. My first book, From the Center of the Earth: the Search for the Truth About China, resulted from my three years in a China just embarking on the reforms that have now made it a world power. I’ve maintained my interest in China, visiting regularly over the years, but for a long time my main focus was elsewhere. I got a job at the New York Times, and was, successively, United Nations correspondent, Paris bureau chief, national cultural correspondent, book critic, and Berlin bureau chief. Along the way I reported for the newspaper from a good two dozen countries, from South Africa to Libya, New Caledonia to Poland. Along the way I wrote a few more books, and contributed to such magazines as the New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and the New York Review of Books. I left the Times in 2006 when my tour in Berlin came to an end, and I’ve been working on books ever since, most recently one for young readers, A Girl Named Faithful Plum, which was published by Knopf Books for Young Readers in September 2011. I’ve been writing the occasional essay or review for the New York Review of Books, which happens to be my favorite publication on the planet, and I’m at work on a new book for grown-ups, provisionally entitled China, 1945: America, Mao’s Revolution, and the Turning Point in Asia. THE BOOK: “CHINA 1945” A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing airmen shot down over enemy territory. Chinese leaders talked of a future in which American money and technology would help lift China out of poverty. Mao Zedong himself held friendly meetings with U.S. emissaries, vowing to them his intention of establishing an American-style democracy in China. By year’s end, however, cordiality had been replaced by chilly hostility and distrust. Chinese Communist soldiers were setting ambushes for American marines in north China; Communist newspapers were portraying the United States as an implacable imperialist enemy; civil war in China was erupting. The pattern was set for a quarter century of almost total Sino-American mistrust, with the devastating wars in Korea and Vietnam among the consequences. Richard Bernstein here tells the incredible story of that year’s sea change, brilliantly analyzing its many components, from ferocious infighting among U.S. diplomats, military leaders, and opinion makers to the complex relations between Mao and his patron, Stalin. On the American side, we meet experienced “China hands” John Paton Davies and John Stewart Service, whose efforts at negotiation made them prey to accusations of Communist sympathy; FDR’s special ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, a decorated general and self-proclaimed cowboy; and Time journalist, Henry Luce, whose editorials helped turn the tide of American public opinion. On the Chinese side, Bernstein reveals the ascendant Mao and his intractable counterpart, Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek; and the indispensable Zhou Enlai. A tour de force of narrative history, China 1945 examines the first episode in which American power and good intentions came face-to-face with a powerful Asian revolutionary movement, and challenges familiar assumptions about the origins of modern Sino-American relations.
Guest: Dr. Lee Hieb Dr. Lee D. Hieb is a fourth generation Iowan, and was the only 3rd party candidate running in the 2014 Iowa gubernatorial race against current incumbent Terry Branstad (R) and Jack Hatch (D). Hieb is an orthopedic surgeon whom attended Grinnell College and the University of Iowa before completing her medical degree at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in Rochester, NY. The doctor served 10 years as a general medical officer in the United States military being stationed both domestically and in Japan. She is also a qualified Navy Diver. Dr. Hieb is a believer in the non-aggression principle, and a strong advocate for liberty. Lee Hieb lost the general election on November 4, 2014. Hieb is a doctor working in private practice. THE BOOK: “Surviving the Medical Meltdown: Your Guide to Living Through the Disaster of Obamacare” Government health care has never in the history of the world, anywhere, delivered the same quality of medical care as has the free market. As we have lost the battle for competitive health care, today we are traveling along the path to a centrally controlled Soviet-style system that means doctor shortages, limited availability of procedures, scarcity of specialized drugs, long wait times, and an overall increased cost for a decreased quality of our healthcare. Over half of the surgeons who cover emergency rooms are over fifty years old. Many are retiring early; many are dramatically reducing their patient load. And the new regulations required by Obamacare are only making this much worse. You need to be medically prepared. Surviving the Medical Meltdown is a guide to preparing you and your household to prevent and deal with a multitude of medical issues. It explains how we got in this situation, tells how to plan ahead when doctors and insurance aren't there to help, offers the latest medical breakthroughs so you can best maintain good health, and provides a home care handbook full of health tips for everything from rashes and fevers to fractures and chest pain. It will help you prepare for a future where immediate access to the modern medical care of today is simply not available. Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi Keese, is one of America's Finest Trial Lawyers and our Co-Host, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today's guests. He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients. Girardi Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in sous way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino. www.girardikeese.com Hosted by Steve Murphy
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