K blows top
Subtitle: a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist
By: Peter Carlson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781586484972
Subjects: Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, -- 1894-1971 -- Travel -- United States; Cold War; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States
Description: Recounts Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America against the backdrop of the Cold War and a capitalist America living under the shadow of the hydrogen bomb.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-314) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : K blows top; title: Trip One : The heat in the kitchen.; title: Dueling proverbs; title: Arguing about animal dung; title: Khrushchev takes the Pepsi challenge; title: The kitchen debate; title: Nixon gets zapped; title: How many nukes does it take to wipe out England?; title: The new party line on love; title: Nixon gets drunk; title: Khrushchev's coming! Khrushchev's coming!; title: Trip Two : "A surreal extravaganza".; title: The worst human being on earth; title: What should K see?; title: Shooting the moon; title: K meets J. Edgar Hoover; title: Fondling animals; title: Khrushchev throws a tantrum; title: Communism is like my wart; title: The premier tells a Jewish joke; title: The dentists fight back; title: Stuck in an elevator; title: Bronx cheers in New York; title: Khrushchev fever sweeps Hollywood; title: Nikita meets Marilyn; title: Can-Can; title: Khrushchev fakes a tantrum; title: Barnstorming to San Francisco; title: Mankind's face is more beautiful than its backside; title: J. Edgar Hoover gets caught with his pants down; title: A riot in the cathedral of capitalism; title: A Cossack charge in Coon Rapids, Iowa; title: Communist dictator in a home ec class; title: Camp David; title: Chasing butterflies; title: The first to be shot; title: Chihuahuas for Khrushchev; title: Stormy applause; title: Trip Three : The banging of the shoe.; title: Spy in the sky; title: Obligatory sex scene; title: That son of a bitch, Richard Nixon; title: Rendezvous with Fidel; title: The guest who wouldn't leave; title: Banging the shoe; title: I feel vicious, malicious, and low!; title: Epilogue : Life is a cosmic joke