Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations

by Charlene Mires

Book Overview

From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy--a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479833754
• ISBN13: 9781479833757
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"