K blows top a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist
(2009)
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Inc. : Made available through hoopla, 2009
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (10hr., 49 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781433279713 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT10025640, 1433279711 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 10025640
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Malcolm Hillgartner
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 fifties, 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
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