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  • K Blows Top

  • A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev
  • Written by: Peter Carlson
  • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
  • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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K Blows Top

Written by: Peter Carlson
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
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Publisher's Summary

Khrushchev's 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted. He told jokes, threw tantrums, sparked a riot in a San Francisco supermarket, wowed coeds in an Iowa home-economics class, and ogled Shirley MacLaine. He befriended and offended a cast of characters including Nelson Rockefeller and Marilyn Monroe.

The trip took place in the 50s, with the shadow of the hydrogen bomb hanging over his visit like the Sword of Damocles. As Khrushchev kept reminding people, he was a hot-tempered man with the power to incinerate America.
©2009 Peter Carlson (P)2009 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ideologies & Doctrines International Relations Russia United States
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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." ( Publisher's Weekly)

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  • 2021-12-18

Interesting and entertaining audiobook.

Interesting and entertaining audiobook..
A very easy read and interesting..
Lots of interesting information concerning an interesting individual..I enjoyed it ...

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