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Act of creation : the founding of the United Nations : a story of superpowers, secret agents, wartime allies and enemies, and their quest for a peaceful world / Stephen C. Schlesinger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schlesinger, Stephen C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--History.
- United Nations.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Schlesinger tells a pivotal and little-known story of how Secretary of State Edward Stettinius and the new American President, Harry Truman, picked up the pieces of the shattered campaign initiated by Franklin Roosevelt to create a "United Nations."
- Contents:
- The takeover
- The League follies : Wilson and Roosevelt
- The unlikely pilgrimage of Leo Pasvolsky
- Yalta and aftermath : Roosevelt's last acts
- Truman and Stettinius : the awkward alliance
- Secret agents, big powers
- Americanizing the conference
- The bitter trade-off
- Full-court press
- The amendment marathon
- Rockefeller's bounty : the regional option
- The twenty-three questions
- The mission to Moscow
- The final battles
- The fall of Stettinius
- The ratification story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813333245
- OCLC:
- 52520112
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