Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

This article relates to K Blows Top

Vice president Richard Nixon spars with Nikita Khrushchev during the former's visit to Moscow.

On the set of the film Can-Can, Shirley MacLaine and Frank Sinatra gave the communist dictator a taste of good old fashioned American titillation.

K and wife Nina pose with the family of Iowa corn farmer Robert Garst whose deft salesmanship influenced the development of Soviet agriculture.

Khrushchev embraces the victorious Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro in New York city during a meeting of the United Nations. An explosive alliance between the Caribbean nation and the Soviet Union would soon solidify and send the world to the brink of Armageddon.

more images from K's tour

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This "beyond the book article" relates to K Blows Top. It originally ran in July 2009 and has been updated for the July 2010 paperback edition. Go to magazine.

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