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Article: Building the Cold War -- Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture. (Book Reviews).
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- Architectural Science Review
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- March 1, 2002
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Hilton International Hotels and the Marshall Plan
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Building the Cold War -- Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture, by Annabel Jane Wharton. The University of Chicago Press, 1147 E 60th Street, Chicago IL 60637-2954, 2001. 249 pp., Ill., index. Price: $US 45.00.
Conrad Hilton was a hotel entrepeneur of vision. He financed the first university school of hotel management at Cornell University. At the end of World War II he proposed that American hotels should be used as a way to display the benefits of democracy overseas, and he managed to persuade the Economic Cooperation Administration to make Marshall Plan funds available to ...