Act of Creation - Hammering Out the UN Charter

Our latest episode of “Act of Creation” takes listeners deep into
conversation with Stephen Schlesinger, author of the book of the
same name, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this September and
chronicles the birth of the United Nations through the signing of
the UN Charter. That is arguably the moment when the UN was born,
at the end of a two-month conclave that began on April 25, 1945,
most famously referred to as the San Francisco Conference. The
second episode of our three-part series moves from the human flavor
of the first episode, where we put the conference into historical
context, setting the atmosphere, the quality of the air that was
being breathed in at the time. World War II was still underway,
Hiroshima was only a few months away and United States President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was by far the most central figure to the
creation of the UN than most listeners realized.