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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Main Author: Swift, Earl, 1958-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Out of the mud
  • Connecting the dots
  • The crooked straight, the rough places plain
  • The human obstacle.