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Author Carlson, Peter, 1952-

Title K blows top : a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist / Peter Carlson.

Publication Info. New York : PublicAffairs, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  947.085 CARLSON    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  947.085 C19    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  947.0852 CARLSON    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  947.085 CA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xiv, 327 pages, 9 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-314) and index.
Summary 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.
Contents Trip One : The heat in the kitchen -- Trip Two : "A surreal extravaganza" -- Trip Three : The banging of the shoe.
Subject Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971 -- Travel -- United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.
Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Cold War.
ISBN 9781586484972
1586484974
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