Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations by Charlene Mires

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

Charlene Mires

319 pages first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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...

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