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Join us at Central Auditorium Tuesday, Feb. 23, for K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist, with author and former Washington Post writer, Peter Carlson.
Nikita Khrushchev?s 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted--"a surreal extravaganza," as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Peter Carlson captures the times as the Soviet leader threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed coeds in Iowa, and ogled Arlington's own Shirley MacLaine.
Can't wait? Watch an interview with the author from BookTV.
- Meanwhile, Over On The Teen Blog...
There's so much cool stuff going on over on the Teen blog this fall, that we simply have to share it: Author Interviews! Don't miss our interview with Allen Zadoff, author of My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies (and read our review)...
- Author Talk: "inside A U.s. Embassy"
Join us Thursday, May 26 for a discussion with author Shawn Dorman on Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America, at Central Library Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. Dorman will discuss - from personal experience - what kind of personnel work...
- Author Talk: "images Of America--fort Myer" - March 24
Join us Thursday, March 24 for a discussion with author John Michael Kupik, author of Images of America - Fort Myer, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in Central Auditorium. During the Civil War, Washington DC was the most fortified city in the world with 70 fortifications...
- "on Hallowed Ground" Author Talk At Central - 02/25
Join us for a reading and discussion with Robert M. Poole, author of On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery, on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., in Central Auditorium. Poole traces the founding of Arlington National Cemetery on what...
- Author Talk: "honorable Survivor" - 01/28
Join us for a discussion with author Lynne Joiner on her new book Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service. Lynne Joiner, a veteran broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, recounts the...
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"K Blows Top" Author Talk at Central, 2/23/10
Join us at Central Auditorium Tuesday, Feb. 23, for K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist, with author and former Washington Post writer, Peter Carlson.Nikita Khrushchev?s 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted--"a surreal extravaganza," as historian John Lewis Gaddis called it. Peter Carlson captures the times as the Soviet leader threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed coeds in Iowa, and ogled Arlington's own Shirley MacLaine.
Can't wait? Watch an interview with the author from BookTV.
- Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7:00 p.m.
- Central Library
- This event was originally scheduled for Fall 2008; See the Full Library Events Calendar.
- Meanwhile, Over On The Teen Blog...
There's so much cool stuff going on over on the Teen blog this fall, that we simply have to share it: Author Interviews! Don't miss our interview with Allen Zadoff, author of My Life, the Theater, and Other Tragedies (and read our review)...
- Author Talk: "inside A U.s. Embassy"
Join us Thursday, May 26 for a discussion with author Shawn Dorman on Inside a U.S. Embassy: How the Foreign Service Works for America, at Central Library Auditorium, 7:00 p.m. Dorman will discuss - from personal experience - what kind of personnel work...
- Author Talk: "images Of America--fort Myer" - March 24
Join us Thursday, March 24 for a discussion with author John Michael Kupik, author of Images of America - Fort Myer, from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in Central Auditorium. During the Civil War, Washington DC was the most fortified city in the world with 70 fortifications...
- "on Hallowed Ground" Author Talk At Central - 02/25
Join us for a reading and discussion with Robert M. Poole, author of On Hallowed Ground: The Story of Arlington National Cemetery, on Thursday, Feb. 25, at 7 p.m., in Central Auditorium. Poole traces the founding of Arlington National Cemetery on what...
- Author Talk: "honorable Survivor" - 01/28
Join us for a discussion with author Lynne Joiner on her new book Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America and the Persecution of John S. Service. Lynne Joiner, a veteran broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker, recounts the...