Charlene Mires: 3 books

Book cover of Independence Hall in American Memory
by Charlene Mires
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015

Independence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. Within its walls the Continental Congress declared independence in 1776, and in 1787 the Founding Fathers drafted the U.S. Constitution there. Painstakingly restored to evoke these momentous events, the building appears to have passed through...
Book cover of Absolutely Not New York

Absolutely Not New York

Finding a Home for the United Nations

by Charlene Mires
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014

From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, the newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy. But what would it look like, and where would it be? At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one...
Book cover of Capital of the World

Capital of the World

The Race to Host the United Nations

by Charlene Mires
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013

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 place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World....
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