[ALOUD] at Central Library
Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:00 PM
TIM NAFTALI

Khrushchev’s Cold War: The Inside Story
of an American Adversary

 

In conversation with Mike Shuster, NPR Foreign Correspondent

Naftali, recently named the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, provides one of the most gripping and authoritative studies of the crisis years of the Cold War.

Tim Naftali is the director of the Nixon Presidential Materials Project and director-designate of the federal Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Musuem.  Before joining the National Archives and Records Administration in October 2006, Tim was at the University of Virginia's Miller Center where he wrote widely on foreign policy and presidential history. His latest books are Kruschev's Cold War (co-authored with Aleksandr Fursenko) and Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism.

Mike Shuster is a diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent for NPR. He is based in NPR's Los Angeles bureau. When he is not traveling outside the U.S., he covers issues of nuclear non-proliferation and weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and the Pacific Rim. In the past two years, he has contributed many reports to NPR's extensive coverage of the Middle East, traveling four times to Israel since September 2000. He has also reported from Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq.