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Capital of the World - The Race to Host the United Nations (Paperback)
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Capital of the World - The Race to Host the United Nations (Paperback)
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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 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.
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