K blows top : a Cold War comic interlude starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's most unlikely tourist /
K Blows Top is the hilarious true story of a stranger in a strange land. The stranger was Nikita Khrushchev, the fat-bellied, thin-skinned, funny, cranky premier of the Soviet Union. The strange land was America in the 50s, a world of tail fins, movie stars, missile silos, and duck-and-cover drills....
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
PublicAffairs,
©2009.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : K blows top
- Trip One : The heat in the kitchen. Dueling proverbs
- Arguing about animal dung
- Khrushchev takes the Pepsi challenge
- The kitchen debate
- Nixon gets zapped
- How many nukes does it take to wipe out England?
- The new party line on love
- Nixon gets drunk
- Khrushchev's coming! Khrushchev's coming!
- Trip Two : "A surreal extravaganza". The worst human being on earth
- What should K see?
- Shooting the moon
- K meets J. Edgar Hoover
- Fondling animals
- Khrushchev throws a tantrum
- Communism is like my wart
- The premier tells a Jewish joke
- The dentists fight back
- Stuck in an elevator
- Bronx cheers in New York
- Khrushchev fever sweeps Hollywood
- Nikita meets Marilyn
- Can-Can
- Khrushchev fakes a tantrum
- Barnstorming to San Francisco
- Mankind's face is more beautiful than its backside
- J. Edgar Hoover gets caught with his pants down
- A riot in the cathedral of capitalism
- A Cossack charge in Coon Rapids, Iowa
- Communist dictator in a home ec class
- Camp David
- Chasing butterflies
- The first to be shot
- Chihuahuas for Khrushchev
- Stormy applause
- Trip Three : The banging of the shoe. Spy in the sky
- Obligatory sex scene
- That son of a bitch, Richard Nixon
- Rendezvous with Fidel
- The guest who wouldn't leave
- Banging the shoe
- I feel vicious, malicious, and low!
- Epilogue : Life is a cosmic joke.