Peter Carlson
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En el año 1959 la guerra fría estaba en su apogeo, dos superpotencias tenían la capacidad de destruir el mundo gracias a la bomba atómica, las tensiones estaban a flor de piel, en los colegios estadounidenses se explicaba a los niños cómo actuar ante la posible aniquilación del mundo, las familias construían refugios nucleares bajo el jardín trasero de sus casas, las amenazas diplomáticas estaban a la orden del día, en estas circunstancias...
2) K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
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Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. He told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed coeds in an Iowa home-economics class, and ogled Shirley MacLaine. He befriended and offended a cast of characters including Nelson Rockefeller and Marilyn Monroe. The trip took place in the fifties, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his...
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Albert Richardson and Junius Browne, two correspondents for the New York Tribune, were captured at the Battle of Vicksburg and spent twenty months in horrific Confederate prisons before escaping and making their way to Union territory. Their amazing, long-forgotten odyssey is one of the great escape stories in American history, packed with drama, courage, horrors and heroics, plus many moments of antic comedy. They must endure the Confederacy's most...