K Blows Top A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

Name: K Blows Top A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist
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ISBN: 9781586488468

ISBN-10: 1586488465

ISBN-13: 9781586488468

Edition: N/A

Authors: Peter Carlson

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This hilarious account of Khrushchev's 1959 U.S. tour is also a supremely entertaining evocation of the history and atmosphere of Cold War America.

Book details

List price: $28.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 7/6/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Prologue: K Blows Top



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!



"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



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"


Acknowledgments


Notes on Sources


Index