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K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
K Blows Top A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev America's Most Unlikely Tourist
Author: Peter Carlson
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 of...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781586488468
ISBN-10: 1586488465
Publication Date: 6/1/2010
Pages: 352
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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This is one of the most entertaining books that I have read, I got through it in one sitting (actually, I got up once, but I'll save that for some other post). The writer emphasizes the journalistic comedy over the politics, although there was a lot of politics, both geo- and domestic, to explain). There are actually 3 trips involved, first, Nixon's trip to Moscow (the kitchen debate), Khrushchev's trip across America in 1959 (that's most of the book), and Khrushchev's trip to NY and the United Nations in 1960 (since he wasn't invited by the US government, he was confined to Manhatten).


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