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K Blows Top by Peter Carlson

K Blows Top

A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist

by Peter Carlson
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  • Jun 1, 2009, 352 pages
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  • Jul 2010, 352 pages
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