K blows top : a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist / Peter Carlson.

K Blows Top is the hilarious true story of a stranger in a strange land. The stranger was Nikita Khrushchev, the fat-bellied, thin-skinned, funny, cranky premier of the Soviet Union. The strange land was America in the 50s, a world of tail fins, movie stars, missile silos, and duck-and-cover drills....

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Main Author: Carlson, Peter, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Prologue : K blows top -- Trip One : The heat in the kitchen. Dueling proverbs -- Arguing about animal dung -- Khrushchev takes the Pepsi challenge -- The kitchen debate -- Nixon gets zapped -- How many nukes does it take to wipe out England? -- The new party line on love -- Nixon gets drunk -- Khrushchev's coming! Khrushchev's coming! -- Trip Two : "A surreal extravaganza". The worst human being on earth -- What should K see? -- Shooting the moon -- K meets J. Edgar Hoover -- Fondling animals -- Khrushchev throws a tantrum -- Communism is like my wart -- The premier tells a Jewish joke -- The dentists fight back -- Stuck in an elevator -- Bronx cheers in New York -- Khrushchev fever sweeps Hollywood -- Nikita meets Marilyn -- Can-Can -- Khrushchev fakes a tantrum -- Barnstorming to San Francisco -- Mankind's face is more beautiful than its backside -- J. Edgar Hoover gets caught with his pants down -- A riot in the cathedral of capitalism -- A Cossack charge in Coon Rapids, Iowa -- Communist dictator in a home ec class -- Camp David -- Chasing butterflies -- The first to be shot -- Chihuahuas for Khrushchev -- Stormy applause -- Trip Three : The banging of the shoe. Spy in the sky -- Obligatory sex scene -- That son of a bitch, Richard Nixon -- Rendezvous with Fidel -- The guest who wouldn't leave -- Banging the shoe -- I feel vicious, malicious, and low! -- Epilogue : Life is a cosmic joke. 
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