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K Blows Top
A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America’s Most Unlikely TouristBy Peter CarlsonNarrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
Length10h 48m
About this audiobook
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.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Politics and Government
Length10 hrs 48 mins
Narrated byMalcolm Hillgartner
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateJun 2, 2009
LanguageEnglish
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