Capital of the World by Charlene Mires PAPERBACK 9781479833757

Capital of the World\nby Charlene Mires\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Charlene Mires\nTitle: Capital of the World\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479833757\nISBN-10: 1479833754\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nFrom 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 diplomacya 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.