America’s Youngest Ambassador Audiobook Libro.fm

In 1982 amid the nuclear paranoia that engulfed the US and the Soviet Union Samantha Smith a fifth grader from Manchester Maine wrote a letter to the Kremlin asking the Soviet leader if he was going to start a war When Pravda the biggest Soviet newspaper published her letterand Samantha received an unprecedented invitation to visit the Soviet Union her family embarked on a historic journey

The story of a young American girls letter to the Soviet leader and her innocent curiosity about the other side of the Iron Curtain holds an important lesson for every American Americas Youngest Ambassador provides insights into a forgotten era and has an important message for young people who strive to be more involved in facilitating change both locally and worldwide

Juxtaposing Samanthas narrative with that of her own childhood in the Soviet Union in the 1980s Lena Nelson explores the consequences of government propaganda on both sides of the ocean and reveals how Samantha Smiths journey in the summer of 1983 helped melt the hearts of the Soviets and thaw the ice of the Cold War Drawing on interviews conducted in both the US and Russia with key players in the events of those days Nelson blends storytelling anecdotes and analysis of SovietAmerican relations to tell the story of this unprecedented moment in history