Carlson’s book traces the extraordinary visit of USSR Nikita Khrushchev to the U.S. in 1959. The book begins with K and Nixon’s “kitchen debate” in Moscow, and concludes with Khrushchev’s ignominious end in the Soviet Union. In between he and his family spend three weeks touring the U.S. from DC to NYC to Iowa and San Francisco, alternately bragging about the superior Russian people and industry and quietly marveling at American ingenuity. Carlson captures with a comic touch the mercurial Russian leader, a stolid Eisenhower, and the pushy, prickly Richard Nixon. Highlights include K’s friendship with farmer Bob Garst and the invitation to view the filming of ‘Can Can,’ a movie he thought was “pornography.” Well-researched using sources from both sides. All in all, a very entertaining episode in Cold War history.