001479506 000__ 04672nam\a22007695i\4500 001479506 001__ 1479506 001479506 003__ DE-B1597 001479506 005__ 20231026035057.0 001479506 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479506 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479506 008__ 230918t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479506 010__ $$a2012035350 001479506 020__ $$a9780814708354 001479506 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814708354.001.0001$$2doi 001479506 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)547819 001479506 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479506 0410_ $$aeng 001479506 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479506 05000 $$aJZ4986$$b.M57 2013 001479506 072_7 $$aHIS036000$$2bisacsh 001479506 1001_ $$aMires, Charlene, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479506 24510 $$aCapital of the World :$$bThe Race to Host the United Nations /$$cCharlene Mires. 001479506 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2013] 001479506 264_4 $$c©2013 001479506 300__ $$a1 online resource :$$b32 black and white illustrations 001479506 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479506 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479506 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479506 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479506 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tPART I. From War to Peace -- $$t1. Inspiration -- $$t2. Hope -- $$t3. Schemes -- $$tPART II. The New World -- $$t4. Blitz -- $$t5. Showtime! -- $$t6. Surprise -- $$tPART III. American Dreams -- $$t7. Stumble -- $$t8. Scramble -- $$t9. Deal -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tAbbreviations in Appendix and Notes -- $$tAppendix: Capitals of the World -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479506 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479506 520__ $$aFrom 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy-a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities-Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world's diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States' place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history. 001479506 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479506 546__ $$aIn English. 001479506 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023) 001479506 650_4 $$aHISTORY / United States / General$$2sh. 001479506 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479506 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tNew York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$z9783110706444 001479506 7760_ $$cprint$$z9780814707944 001479506 852__ $$bebk 001479506 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814708354$$zOnline Access 001479506 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479506$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479506 912__ $$a978-3-11-070644-4 New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479506 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479506 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479506 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479506 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479506 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479506 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479506 980__ $$aBIB 001479506 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479506 982__ $$aEbook 001479506 983__ $$aOnline