LEADER 03554nam 22005895 450 001 9910478895303321 005 20210722020859.0 010 $a0-8147-0835-8 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814708354 035 $a(CKB)2670000000331236 035 $a(EBL)1126721 035 $a(OCoLC)828793128 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000832828 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11476932 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832828 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10935258 035 $a(PQKB)10982941 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1126721 035 $a(OCoLC)844348091 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26020 035 $a(DE-B1597)547819 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814708354 035 $a(OCoLC)827947211 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000331236 100 $a20200608h20132013 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCapital of the World $eThe Race to Host the United Nations /$fCharlene Mires 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cNew York University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a1-4798-3375-4 311 0 $a0-8147-0794-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$t1. Inspiration --$t2. Hope --$t3. Schemes --$t4. Blitz --$t5. Showtime! --$t6. Surprise --$t7. Stumble --$t8. Scramble --$t9. Deal --$tEpilogue --$tAbbreviations in Appendix and Notes --$tAppendix: Capitals of the World --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aFrom 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 transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities?Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world?s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States? place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / General$2bisacsh 607 $aNew York (N.Y.)$xBuildings, structures, etc 608 $aElectronic books. 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / General. 676 $a341.2309 700 $aMires$b Charlene$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01035855 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910478895303321 996 $aCapital of the World$92455773 997 $aUNINA