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Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture
Annabel Jane Wharton
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| #2053712 in Books | 2004-03-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 11.00 x.60 x8.50l,1.94 | File type: PDF | 272 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Modernist architecture and anti-communism|By Yaakov Ben Shalom|This book is a fascinating analysis of how the Hilton hotel chain spread into Europe and the Middle East during the 1950s and 1960s. The key is that by building architecturally modernist (and highly modern) hotels, Conrad Hilton thought he was fighting the Cold War. Locals and guests were to be impressed by Americ|From the Inside Flap|
In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were quite literally "little Americas." For American businessmen and tourists, a Hilton Hotel—with the comfortable familiarity of an English-speaking staff, a restaurant that se
In postwar Europe and the Middle East, Hilton hotels were quite literally "little Americas." For American businessmen and tourists, a Hilton Hotel—with the comfortable familiarity of an English-speaking staff, a restaurant that served cheeseburgers and milkshakes, trans-Atlantic telephone lines, and, most important, air-conditioned modernity—offered a respite from the disturbingly alien. For impoverished local populations, these same features lent the Hi...
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