K BLOWS TOP: A COLD WAR COMIC INTERLUDE STARRING NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, AMERICA’S MOST UNLIKELY TOURIST

Book ID/图书代码： 08900008B28294

English Summary/英文概要： Khrushchev’s 1959 trip across America was one of the strangest exercises in international diplomacy ever conducted—“a surreal extravaganza,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis 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. As Khrushchev kept reminding people, he was a hot-tempered man who possessed the power to incinerate America.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1959年前苏联领导人赫鲁晓夫的访美之行一直以来都被冠以“国际外交的离奇之旅”之名，有历史学家称之为“超现实娱乐表演”。赫鲁晓夫在访美过程中的一系列离奇动作让人摸不着头脑。他对尼克松、罗斯福、泰勒、门罗等要人时而友善相待，时而针锋相对。
本书于赫鲁晓夫之行的五十周年之期出版，书中描写了这位脾气极坏的前苏联政客对美的怒意。正如主人公自己所称，他脾气暴躁，能轻易摧毁美国。(SJN)

Awards/获奖情况："This book recreates in vivid detail one of the most astonishing figures in our recent history. The Communist leader’s storming of America can be enjoyed by everyone, but especially those with memories of that singular episode in the winding down of the Cold War." ---Daniel Schorr, Senior News Analyst, National Public Radio

"What a joy it was to read Peter Carlson’s K Blows Top. With vivid detail, crisp language, subtle wit, and admirable new research, Carlson recounts Khrushchev’s notorious bungling around America in 1959. A truly fine piece of writing and Cold War scholarship."---Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History and Baker Institute Fellow at Rice University

“Peter Carlson’s K Blows Top is an utterly hilarious and un-putdown-able story about one of the strangest episodes of the Cold War -- Khrushchev’s 1959 visit to the U.S. Someone absolutely has to make this into a movie. I insist!”---Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking and Supreme Courtship

“I can’t remember when I’ve had more fun with a book…simply hilarious.”---The Daily Beast, from Christopher Buckley, author of Thank you for Smoking and Little Green Men

“Any work of history whose chapter titles include "It Killed Milton Berle and It Can Kill You Too" and "Chihuahuas For Khrushchev" deserves to be read. Like the mid-century journalists who chronicled this Strangelovian chapter of the Cold War, Peter Carlson writes with wit, energy, clarity, and delightful skepticism. This book seems to have been a joy to write; it is certainly a joy to read.”---Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars and The Bin Ladens.

“For anyone interested in this remarkable moment in the long history of U.S.-Soviet relations, Carlson’s book is a treat!”---Library Journal, 3/1: STARRED review

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About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Carlson is a former feature writer and columnist for The Washington Post, where he wrote the weekly column "The Magazine Reader." The author of Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, and a co-author—with Hunter S. Thompson and George Plimpton, among others—of The Gospel According to ESPN, he lives in Rockville, MD.

本书作者彼得·卡尔逊，曾任《华盛顿邮报》专题作家，专栏作家。出版多部著作。现居美国马里兰州。

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