Provides an account of the competition to host the site of the UN's headquarters, looking at the unsuccessful bidders--from Philadelphia and Chicago to the Black Hills and Tuskahoma, Oklahoma--and why
"This is a book I have long awaited, one that tells the life of a single building so as to illuminate American history from almost every angle—cultural, social, and political."—Mary Ryan, author of Ci
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 U
