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 / 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlson, Peter, 1952-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, > 1894-1971 > Travel > United States.
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, > 1894-1971
Cold War.
HISTORY.
Diplomatic relations
Travel
United States > Foreign relations > Soviet Union.
Soviet Union > Foreign relations > United States.
Soviet Union
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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