The big roads the untold story of the engineers, visionaries, and trailblazers who created the American superhighways
A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape--the U.S. interstate system transformed America. The Big Roads presents the surprising history of how we got from dirt tracks to expressways in the span of a single lifetime. From...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
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