Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users

摘要

In July 1959, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev faced off in the famous Moscow "kitchen debate," arguing the virtues of their respective political systems in a high-tech American kitchen. This debate, which the editors of Cold War Kitchen call "a transatlantic clash between American corporate and European welfare-state visions of technological development" (p. 8) is featured throughout their book, but it seldom feels repetitive. Instead, each retelling adds to our understanding of the event.