Episode for March 16, 2021

Bill B in DC and Author and Historian Michael Pembroke

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Bill Boyle is a well sourced and connected businessman who lives in Washington DC with his wife and son. Bill is a trusted friend and source for me who I met after he listened and became a regular and highly respected caller of my siriusxm radio show. Bill is a voracious reader and listeners love to hear his take. I think his analysis is as sharp as anyone you will hear on radio or TV and he has well placed friends across the federal government who are always talking to him. As far as I can tell he is not in the CIA. Follow him on twitter and park at his garages.

Michael Pembroke was educated at the Universities of Sydney and Cambridge and was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey in 2017. He has travelled extensively, and lived in the United Kingdom and colonial Southeast Asia, as well as in Trump’s America. He was in Washington DC at the time of Watergate; Chicago when the Obamacare legislation was passed; New York city shortly before 9/11; and New Jersey during the first year of the Trump presidency. A former New South Wales Supreme Court judge (2010–20), he is the author of Korea: Where the American Century Began (2018).

AMERICA IN RETREAT: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19 In clear and incisive language, Pembroke details the post-American era into which we are now headed. The international authority supported by American values that the United States has enjoyed since World War II, has been in a rapid decline which has only been accelerated by Covid-19.

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