Diplomacy shot down : the U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's aborted mission to Moscow, 1959-1960 /

Explores how Dwight D. Eisenhower's long-anticipated visit with Nikita S. Khrushchev in 1960 became a casualty of the U-2 crisis and how his failure to visit the Soviet Union had a negative impact on Soviet-American relations during the Cold War.