"Did the Russians invent baseball? Is there a connection between Babe Ruths cross-dressing and Gertrude Steins secret mission to New York? What does history tell us about what lies beyond heaven? From the American heartland to Hiroshima, to Paris, to shopping malls and caves with prehistoric art, Ivan the Terrible Goes on a Family Picnic is a wild ride across generations and frontiers of the imagination"-- Provided by publisher.