Hour 1: How did the United Nations headquarters end up in New York? We’ll examine the post-World War II competition to house the UN this hour with Charlene Mires, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University-Camden and author of the new book Capital of the World: The Race to Host the United Nations (NYU Press, 2013).
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