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    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York ; London : New York University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV049824843
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9780814708354 , 9780814723869
    Content: 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. 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 the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States’ place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8147-0794-4
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Vereinte Nationen Headquarters ; Großstadt ; Wettbewerb ; Bauentwurf ; Geschichte 1944-1949
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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  • 2
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    New York ; London : New York University Press
    UID:
    b3kat_BV049824860
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    ISBN: 9780814790595 , 9780814744673
    Series Statement: Critical Cultural Communication
    Content: Love and Money argues that we can’t understand contemporary queer cultures without looking through the lens of social class. Resisting old divisions between culture and economy, identity and privilege, left and queer, recognition and redistribution, Love and Money offers supple approaches to capturing class experience and class form in and around queerness.Contrary to familiar dismissals, not every queer television or movie character is like Will Truman on Will and Grace—rich, white, healthy, professional, detached from politics, community, and sex. Through ethnographic encounters with readers and cultural producers and such texts as Boys Don’t Cry, Brokeback Mountain, By Hook or By Crook, and wedding announcements in the New York Times, Love and Money sees both queerness and class across a range of idioms and practices in everyday life. How, it asks, do readers of Dorothy Allison’s novels use her work to find a queer class voice? How do gender and race broker queer class fantasy? How do independent filmmakers cross back and forth between industry and queer sectors, changing both places as they go and challenging queer ideas about bad commerce and bad taste?With an eye to the nuances and harms of class difference in queerness and a wish to use culture to forge queer and class affinities, Love and Money returns class and its politics to the study of queer life
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8147-9057-1
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8147-9058-8
    Language: English
    Keywords: USA ; Homosexualität ; Soziale Situation ; Soziale Klasse ; Film ; Fernsehserie
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    URL: JSTOR
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  • 3
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    Book
    New York : Crown
    UID:
    b3kat_BV045287480
    Format: xi, 739 Seiten, 32 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Portraits
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780307409607
    Content: "From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising saga of America's wartime chief executives. Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of Waris a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their deaths. From James Madison and the War of 1812 to recent times, we see them struggling with Congress, the courts, the press, their own advisors and antiwar protesters; seeking comfort from their spouses, families and friends; and dropping to their knees in prayer. We come to understand how these Presidents were able to withstand the pressures of war...both physically and emotionally...or were broken by them. Beschloss's interviews with surviving participants in the drama and his findings in original letters, diaries, once-classified national security documents, and other sources help him to tell this story in a way it has not been told before.Presidents of Warcombines the sense of being there with the overarching context of two centuries of American history. This important book shows how far we have traveled from the time of our Founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to our modern day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons that can destroy much of the human race"...
    Content: "From a preeminent presidential historian comes a groundbreaking and often surprising narrative of America's wartime chief executives"...
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8041-3701-0
    Language: English
    Subjects: Political Science
    RVK:
    Keywords: USA ; Krieg ; Geschichte 1807-1975 ; Historische Darstellung
    Author information: Beschloss, Michael R. 1955-
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  • 4
    UID:
    b3kat_BV023530496
    Format: 288 S. , graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0805071962
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
    RVK:
    Keywords: USA ; Wirtschaft ; Philanthropie
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  • 5
    UID:
    b3kat_BV023516576
    Format: VIII, 324 S. , graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 0812928199
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-298) and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
    RVK:
    Keywords: USA ; Wirtschaft ; Prognose 1981- ; Prognose 1981-
    Author information: Wessel, David 1942-2014
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