The United Nations

Now in its 58th year, the United Nation has fallen on hard times; especially in the wake of war in Iraq. Our guest tells the pivotal and now little known story of the forming of the UN. It's tale of secret agents, backroom politics and a power chess match between the US and the worlds' other great supernations. We'll retell the story of the UN and discuss its relevancy today in an age of terror. Laura's guest is Stephen C. Schlesinger, Director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University in New York City and author of "Act of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations"