A Worldly Affair : : New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond /

A Worldly Affair : : New York, the United Nations, and the Story Behind Their Unlikely Bond / / Pamela Hanlon.

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For more than seven decades, New York City and the United Nations have shared the island of Manhattan, living and working together in a bond that has been likened to a long marriage-both tempestuous and supportive, quarrelsome and committed. A Worldly Affair tells the story of this hot and cold roma...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Hanlon, Pamela,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
©2017
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Map: United Nations in New York
  • Timeline: New York Mayors and UN Secretaries General
  • Prologue
  • 1 City Rebuffed
  • 2 Suburbia Unnerved
  • 3 Cosmopolitan Charm
  • 4 Rockefellers to the Rescue
  • 5 Rise of a Cityscape Icon
  • 6 Smoothing out the Wrinkles
  • 7 Learning to Live Side by Side
  • 8 Autumn in New York
  • 9 Tussle over Tickets
  • 10 Trio Created
  • 11 Making a Mark
  • 12 Quandary over Age
  • 13 Renewal of a Cityscape Icon
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index

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