Description: K Blows Top : A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist, Paperback by Carlson, Peter, ISBN 1586488465, ISBN-13 9781586488468, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. Khrushchev told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed the coeds in a home economics class in Iowa, and ogled Shirley MacLaine as she filmed a dance scene in Can-Can. He befriended and offended a cast of characters including Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. K Blows Top is a work of history that reads like a Vonnegut novel. This cantankerous communist's road trip took place against the backdrop of the fifties in America, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his visit like the Sword of Damocles. As Khrushchev kept reminding people, he was a hot-tempered man who possessed the power to incinerate America.
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Book Title: K Blows Top : A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Public Affairs
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: United States / 20th Century, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, International Relations / General, Presidents & Heads of State
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Political Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 18 Oz
Author: Peter Carlson
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
