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...
| Main Author: | Swift, Earl, 1958- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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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.