K Blows Top - Peter Carlson - Music - Blackstone Audiobooks - 9781433279690 - June 2, 2009
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Peter Carlson
K Blows Top

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Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted--"a surreal extravaganza," as one historian called it. 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 offended a cast of characters including Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Nixon, Eleanor Roosevelt, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe. Published for the fiftieth anniversary of the trip, K Blows Top is a work of history that reads like a Vonnegut novel. This cantankerous communist's road trip took place against the backdrop of the fifties in capitalist America, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his visit like the Sword of Damocles.

Media Music     CD   (Compact Disc)
Number of discs 1
Released June 2, 2009
ISBN13 9781433279690
Label Blackstone Audiobooks
Dimensions 135 × 188 × 15 mm   ·   113 g

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