Books: Friday Roundup

Not much to report this week.
But here's one quick recommend and then I'm off to watch The Godfather. I've never seen it. I know, I know...

Peter Carlson, "Nikita in Hollywood." Smithsonian July 2009 - Humorous recap of Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschchev's strange visit to tinsel town in 1959. Some of Khruschchev's conclusions? Can-Can is pornographic, our pigs are too fat and our turkeys too small. Oh and he never got to see Disneyland. Sad, really.