K Blows Top
A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, Americas Most Unlikely Tourist

What is there to say really about a travelogue in which a man so hell-bent on a type of World Domination pays a visit on an unsuspecting nation and in turn proceeds to wreak havoc on everything (and everyone) that he meets there? Well, if that person is Nikita S. Khruschev, Premiere of the Supreme S......more

A book with this kind of “forgotten history” is right down my alley. It is subtitled a “comic interlude” and it really is a lightly comic story in the absurdity of politics that also is dropped in the deadly serious era of the Cold War. In 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev made a tour of the Un......more

Otra vez la culpa fue mía. Esperaba más, pero el libro dio lo que ofrecía. Colección de anécdotas narradas como si de un periódico se tratara. La verdad es que empieza haciendo bastante gracia, luego ya no tanto y hay un momento en el que ya uno está deseando que Krushev se pire de una vez porque las......more

This was a lot of fun. Regardless of how he's remembered here in the US today, Nikita Khrushchev comes off as a colorful character who was probably fun to have around... When he wasn't pitching a temper fit. Also, K Blows Top makes clear that Khrushchev was nowhere near as tyrannical and awful as St......more

This is an entertaining work of popular history. It's about Khrushchev's 1959 visit to the United States and the tremendous anger/paranoia/excitement/chaos that it caused. Khrushchev was a complicated man, a toady for Stalin and the man who ordered the invasion of Hungary in 1957, but nevertheless a......more