Experimental Blog #70

Comments on the book "American Entrepreneur" - The Fascinating Stories of the People Who Defined Business in the United States by Larry Schweikart and Lynne Pierson Doti

The 1000s of historical facts and business anecdotes related in this book tell a surprisingly interesting and very persuasive history of America from the very beginning, and from a distinctly "conservative" point of view. That is, it seems that the government is rarely not the enemy, "they always mess things up in the long run", and the people who really matter and who made, and continue to make America, are the very small percentage of America's "entrepreneurs". In modern times the book especially emphasizes the entertainment industries.

However, as far as one very small fact is concerned; they mention that Nikita Khrushchev was one of the 50 million people who had "passed through Sleeping Beauty's Castle" at "Disneyland" in Anaheim, California. Evidently, both of the authors of this book are too young to remember the actual event. The very public episode was noteworthy because, although Nikita Khrushchev wanted to go to "Disneyland" when he visited America in the 1950s as a private citizen, he was not allowed to do so, and he was publicly very upset about it.
Most reports say that Nikita Khrushchev was denied a visit to "Disneyland" because they could not provide sufficient "security" for him, but at least one report has stated that Walt Disney himself, who happened to have an apartment at his park, would not give his permission for a visit to "Disneyland" by the communist dictator.