Mr. Media Interviews By Bob Andelman

Today's Guest: Peter Carlson, journalist, author, K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America's Most Unlikely Tourist ] Order 'K Blows Top' from Amazon.com by clicking the book cover above! Peter Carlson could have taken all the research he did on Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev’s two-week barnstorming tour of the United States in 1959 and converted it into a Cold War-era fable such as Dr. Strangelove or The Mouse That Roared. He could have done that, but truth is stranger than fiction and the truths found within K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude, Starring Nikita Khrushchev, America’s Most Unlikely Tourist are way funnier than even a guy like Dave Barry could have invented. Peter Carlson, author of K Blows Top PETER CARLSON audio excerpt: "Khruschchev kept saying, 'Your capitalists are keeping the Cold War going because they're making money on it.' And the American officials, quite sincerely, said they would never do that. You're crazy Marxists. That's not how it works.